The bit by London will be built. It will use the whole allocated budget. Hands will then be wrung about how it is now sadly impossible to extend it further north. See outside-the-SE Eurostar.
I am strongly in favour of more - any - high speed rail in the UK. But I think it will only work if it starts in the north and works south, building serious rail links between the major cities, with Londoners desperate to join in keeping up the pressure. As it is, Manchester-Leeds will continue to be a poxy chugger.
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Date: 2012-01-07 05:05 pm (UTC)I am strongly in favour of more - any - high speed rail in the UK. But I think it will only work if it starts in the north and works south, building serious rail links between the major cities, with Londoners desperate to join in keeping up the pressure. As it is, Manchester-Leeds will continue to be a poxy chugger.