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Hs2 Tax Payer Funded ?
so let me get this straight, hs2 paid for by the taxpayer, then private rails firms use said hs2
then said tax payers, pay again to use hs2 ie tickets on trains, im not getting it.
then said tax payers, pay again to use hs2 ie tickets on trains, im not getting it.
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>>> is hs2 for freight as well ? It frees up existing tracks for greater use by freight services. Scroll down to "Improving rail freight too": https://www.
20:20 Tue 11th Feb 2020
It's no different to travelling on, say, a National Express coach on a motorway. Taxpayers pay for the motorway to be built, a private company (National Express) then makes use of that motorway to run its services on, with the taxpayer who wants to make use of such a service buying a ticket to do so.
However investing in rail infrastructure makes a damned site more sense environmentally than building motorways!
However investing in rail infrastructure makes a damned site more sense environmentally than building motorways!
Rail travel is now more popular in the UK than it's ever been
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with plenty of scope for increasing passenger numbers far more but only if there's the infrastructure to do so.
HS2 isn't only about slightly faster journeys; what's far more important is ensuring that there's the capacity to carry all of the passengers who wish to travel by rail. (At the moment many train services run with hundreds of people standing and with other people deterred from travelling by rail due to constant overcrowding. HS2 will provide additional capacity, meaning that more people will be able to travel by rail and to do so in comfort).
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with plenty of scope for increasing passenger numbers far more but only if there's the infrastructure to do so.
HS2 isn't only about slightly faster journeys; what's far more important is ensuring that there's the capacity to carry all of the passengers who wish to travel by rail. (At the moment many train services run with hundreds of people standing and with other people deterred from travelling by rail due to constant overcrowding. HS2 will provide additional capacity, meaning that more people will be able to travel by rail and to do so in comfort).
Bring back the porters I say.
There's a shiny shilling my good man now take my steamer trunk and six suitcases to the guards van and be quick about it.
There's forty tonnes of bananas coming on the next train and it needs to be divied up between all the local Tesco and Asda stores and delivered to them before you finish tonight. Make sure your barrow wheels are well greased.
Yes I know they used to be taken by truck direct to the stores but this is a brave new/old world.
I suppose we could look at forming a real infrastructure organisation for major works but who has time for that kind of nonsense these days? Just get a spiv to quote then put at least double aside as they start their usual dance.
There's a shiny shilling my good man now take my steamer trunk and six suitcases to the guards van and be quick about it.
There's forty tonnes of bananas coming on the next train and it needs to be divied up between all the local Tesco and Asda stores and delivered to them before you finish tonight. Make sure your barrow wheels are well greased.
Yes I know they used to be taken by truck direct to the stores but this is a brave new/old world.
I suppose we could look at forming a real infrastructure organisation for major works but who has time for that kind of nonsense these days? Just get a spiv to quote then put at least double aside as they start their usual dance.
>>> is hs2 for freight as well ?
It frees up existing tracks for greater use by freight services.
Scroll down to "Improving rail freight too":
https:/
It frees up existing tracks for greater use by freight services.
Scroll down to "Improving rail freight too":
https:/
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