Hs2

[simmisahota]

What do you think about the impact of HS2 ? Have your say at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VLFLGF2

[jourdain2]

Thank you very much for this link, simmisahota.

[atalanta]

Does anyone realise how few stops the new trains will make ? If ordinary trains between northern cities and London made as few stops as the new one is going to do, they would be scarcely slower. For all those zillions of pounds. And who wants to commute from Manchester to London every day, and pay hundreds of pounds a day to do so ?
I can understand making better arrangements for freight, but I can't see enough passengers wanting such a service. White elephant, if you ask me.

[DTCwordfan]

It stinks - oops that's H2S - but not much difference.

[jourdain2]

Well, as a Northerner, I don't want HS2. We struggle up here because of lack of investment in infrastructure over decades. If the money that is supposed to be spent on HS2 were to fix our transport system then we 'might' have a chance of being a Northern Powerhouse.

I'll give an example. The A64 is the main link from York to the E. coast and thence to the only coastal link up to Teeside. There are lots of farms around and, naturally, it is used by the tractors (it is a rural area in E. Yorks.). Snag is that it is not even a dual carriageway for most of the way. We can spend 20 - or 30 mins getting to the Drs.. There is lots of room (wide verges) to install, even intermittent, 3 lanes to allow overtaking. This is not scheduled and a bypass for the congested main N/S route through Scarborough was shelved. We are choking-up. We all drive in the middle of the other roads because the pot-holes at the sides are so vicious.
No, there are no bus services.

The money from HS2, which seems to have as its only aim the desire to cut a journey by 20 mins. max., would revolutionise transport here - and then some. Don't know anyone who wants HS2.