> The majority of the nation's key institutions are in London. How does improving an East-West axis improve access to them, or encourage them to move? If trans

> The majority of the nation's key institutions are in London. How does improving an East-West axis improve access to them, or encourage them to move? If transport links are good between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and maybe Hull then you have a significant pool of people available to work in any of those locations, though bigger pool is going to be Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds. This could encourage a move as the transport links to London are already pretty good. > There are dedicated business carriages on London trains. The internet isn't fantastic but it's fine. You might not have seen my edit, I didn't mean First Class. The internet access was, until 2018 when I was on the trains regularly, pretty, pretty bad, even in First class. Constant drops, issues sending emails, etc ... > But I'd rather not be on the train long enough to need it. It's not about need is about using the time productively. I could be on the train to London and use the close to two hours to catch up on emails and do a lot of admin. Essentially for me, it was the difference between attending a customer meeting in London, then spending the next day catching up and just having a normal day the day after the meeting. One of my guys refused to work on the train as he would get motion sickness, so clearly YMMV