Sorry it's a DailyMail link but it's quite clear we chose to bore tunnels through open countryside to keep the Tory shires happy Train lines don‘t take up much

Sorry it's a DailyMail link but it's quite clear we chose to bore tunnels through open countryside to keep the Tory shires happy Train lines don‘t take up much space and their impact can be mitigated with landscaping before we go to the expense of tunnels under fields https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084959/HS2-Tory-shires-furious-high-speed-rail-link-gets-ahead.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084959/HS2-Tory-sh...