Bravo!!
You'd think the Low-Carbon potential of HS2 was obvious
1. Free up existing lines for much more frequent local services to attract people out of their gas-guzzlers.
2. Offer a better inter-city option than car, meaning cars just used for short trips, meaning EV's viable.
You'd think the Low-Carbon potential of HS2 was obvious
1. Free up existing lines for much more frequent local services to attract people out of their gas-guzzlers.
2. Offer a better inter-city option than car, meaning cars just used for short trips, meaning EV's viable.
3. Justify more track electrification business case by boosting passenger numbers.
4. Switch freight from HGV to rail.
5. Switch short-hop air to rail.
6. Integrate better with local bus services (6 x 1-carriage trains per hr instead of 1x 6-carriage train)
But too often...
4. Switch freight from HGV to rail.
5. Switch short-hop air to rail.
6. Integrate better with local bus services (6 x 1-carriage trains per hr instead of 1x 6-carriage train)
But too often...
...too often all I get from the anti-HS2 lobby is:
"We should stop travelling so much"
"There are too many people on the planet [Unspoken: forced sterilisation of brown people]"
"We are too obsessed with speed"
I also have a sneaky, nasty, little suspicion that they are getting
"We should stop travelling so much"
"There are too many people on the planet [Unspoken: forced sterilisation of brown people]"
"We are too obsessed with speed"
I also have a sneaky, nasty, little suspicion that they are getting
… a little bit of help from the fossil fuel lobby in Tufton St, who have as much to fear from a switch away from petrol and aviation fuel as anyone.
