tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post9094801872857232596..comments2024-01-22T11:10:44.947+01:00Comments on OUTTAKES: MAP 14: US RAIL SERVICE REDUCTIONSMichael Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-87854403894753610052013-04-07T23:40:44.500+02:002013-04-07T23:40:44.500+02:00hi Michael
Lots of nostalgia but also good sense...hi Michael <br /><br />Lots of nostalgia but also good sense. <br /><br />To bring you up to speed on the HS2 "anti Beeching at an astronomical cost" project . They have just anounced that the high speed line will be "tunnelled" for 2 miles under the housing estate where I live . This is the preferred option, the other being to divert the river Tame and run HS2 on existing lines<br /><br />This may annoy any of the Chiltern "green welly" brigade amongst your readers who won't be so protected from HS2, but caused some mirth in the Butler household plagued as it is with the M6 motorway and the airport flight path. The cost of HS2 is estimted at 30 billion. and its major selling point is that those wealthy enough to travel on it will have their journey timefrom Birmingham to London cut by 20 , yes 20 minutes. HS2 also argue it will provide more capacity.<br /><br /> So a few million saved in the 60's is proving expensive to turn round, but Beeching may yet turn in his grave. Personally I'm with the incomparable Henri David Thoreau who argues against train journeys, preferring to walk<br /><br />ps I see Bob is on the road again with a new guitarist <br /><br />ragards <br /><br />Joe joe butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10124060105960856008noreply@blogger.com