General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Regarding HS2

benefits from building it

benefits from not building it

but half building it: most of the cost for miniscule benefits

only in Britain, the newly emerging backward country

And there is no more certainty of seeing any of these other options see the light of day than there was for HS2.

My expectation is we will see the continuation of sporadic electrification with a bit of route renewal, but like the forty new hospitals, they will try to rebrand each of these incremental developments as a new railway!

I bet Rishi said to Lord Snooty, "see I told you these dumb northerners would buy a pig in a poke all over again".