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Its crazy how nobody understands what HS2 was designed to do.

• GJim 2y ago
  I blame the name "High Speed 2". It was never about improving speed (at least not in any meaningful sense), it was about improving capacity.
  • panick21_ 2y ago
    Yes. A smarter way to do this was not having some separate thing. It should just be 'BritishRail' and 'HS2' should simple be one of many 'Future BritishRail' upgrade paths. You could call the project, 'HighSpeed North-South Mainline'. Make it boring so sensationalized headlines aren't as interesting. Make people who are against it answer the question "Why are you against the rail system". Now they constantly say 'Pro Rail, against HS2' (even if that's BS).
  • chgs 2y ago
    “WCML 6 track project”
• switch007 2y ago
  It's crazy how oversold the project is/was too. Honestly some people believe it will fix every congestion problem in England
  • panick21_ 2y ago
    That just nonsense. The media at large barley ever even even talked about the effect on capacity. Most people didn't even know anything beyond X fast to city Y. Once you get to the people who understand capacity, most are well aware that it doesnt solve everything. Nobody believed it would solve issues to the South or the West. Critics almost universally used the 'we should use the money to increase capacity line'. As if that not what HS2 was designed to do. HS2 certainly creates more capacity then anything else proposed, certently more then some of the ideas thrown out 'improving X other line'. And it serves as a excelent backbone to address other capacity issues that exists in the network.