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HS2 specification ‘unnecessarily high’, says Lord Berkeley

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  1. The suggested number of passengers travelling on HS2 travel based on the number of trains per hour is very unlikely to be achieved If that number of people need to travel in those numbers Then British business is very inefficient and not using modern communications The budget for HS2 would be better spent on improving the present network

  2. Could it be that Lord Berkely does not understand the chief benefit of HS2, as I did not until it was explained to me recently?

    Lord B says economists increasingly agree that “far greater economic growth and increases in productivity would be achieved by public investment in rail, road and bus services that increase the ‘travel to work’ areas of our major cities in the Midlands and the North than by any new major north to south high speed intercity services.

    But that is exactly what HS2 does. It takes the fast trains off the existing lines and frees them up for a huge increase in slow/stopping services, which are the ‘travel to work’ services that Lord B refers to.

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