Could not agree more with this on-line comment below today's Sunday Times leader on HS2:
The Sunday Times should be ashamed of writing such drivel as a leader. The argument that it only saves 23 minutes to Birmingham is facile; the line has to go through the Midlands to get to the North, where the savings will be far greater. You can't seriously believe the government intends going only to Birmingham. You say trains are better than cars because you can work on them, then argue that the money should be spent on improving motorways not railways. You say the money should be spent on a new Thames airport not on HS2, when the two serve utterly different needs for our economy - BOTH essential. You completely ignore the government's argument that it is IMPOSSIBLE to meet future rail capacity needs by improvements to the existing lines; that only a new line can achieve that. Does the writer of this tosh possibly live in the Chilterns and is he or she a member of the anti HS2 campaign?
