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What they needed was another line to relieve congestion on the WCML. But it needn't have been High Speed Rail. HSR is too expensive and impractical. Regular Rai
by tharmas 2y ago
What they needed was another line to relieve congestion on the WCML. But it needn't have been High Speed Rail. HSR is too expensive and impractical. Regular Rail was sufficient. The French call their HSR "debt on wheels".
- MLR 2y agoRegular rail is ruinously expensive in this country too, East West Rail, which is an unelectrified <100mph railway, is probably going to end up costing in the region of £10bn and take twenty years to build. Even local tram projects with distances in the single digits can cost hundreds of millions of pounds now, it's ludicrous.
- growse 2y agoIt's almost like the target speed of the line isn't the problem.