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> My personal preference for a re-balancing is to make travel faster and more economical across the entire country, I live in Liverpool and spend 2 nights in Lo
by Brakenshire 9y ago
> My personal preference for a re-balancing is to make travel faster and more economical across the entire country, I live in Liverpool and spend 2 nights in London, it's a pain but the salary offsets the frustration
You appear to be an example out of HS2's marketing literature!
Out of interest, what are the attitudes to HS2 in Liverpool? Do people talk about it at all.
- kinlan 9y agoPeople talk about it thinking that it will come to Liverpool and it's not, as far as I understand it. The entire hs2 thing will probably bring hour commutes to London (not from Liverpool) but I full expect to have to pay a premium which means the value becomes questionable imo.
- Brakenshire 9y agoAh, yes, I just read about it, as you say HS2 doesn't connect directly into the city centre, that would require HS3, or the '20 miles more' link (http://www.20milesmore.com http://www.20milesmore.com) The ultimate time saving would be to reduce Liverpool to London travel from about 2h 10m to about 1h 10m, with the standard HS2 'classic compatible' network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#/media/File:HS2_classic_network.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#/media/File:HS2_c...) doing about half of that, and the HS3/20MM link the rest. The extra link also would provide much greater capacity improvements, whereas HS2 on its own wouldn't do too much on that account. Still, the HS2 improvement is worth having, and it seems inevitable that once that is built, the extra link will follow. Personally I think they should be building HS3 right now, in parallel.