Britain might be big for an island but it isnt for a country. And somehow Germany, France and even Italy have high speed rail. So does Taiwan and Japan and Kore

Britain might be big for an island but it isnt for a country. And somehow Germany, France and even Italy have high speed rail. So does Taiwan and Japan and Korea. The idea that Britain should have decent North South High Speed rail is crazy. Also, density really drops off in the upper part of Britain, the density below the North England cities is very high. And HS2 was exactly designed for that, and to open capacity on the rest of the system. The North as whole isnt doing great. The numbers are pretty clear. HS2 creating fast north south connection and opening up the rest of the rail system was exactly what was needed. Yes, more investment in Northern rail in general is needed as well, but it would be completly counter-productive to not do HS2 to do that instead.