High-speed rail misses the point
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A new high-speed rail line costing taxpayers tens of billions of pounds will do nothing to improve the daily journeys of the vast majority of the country’s travelling public.
The proposed north–south link also fails to deliver the climate change benefits and reduced road congestion many people hoped for and it offers significantly less value for money than most road schemes.
Commenting on today’s release of the HS2 report, Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said:
‘Given ...
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