Reopening the Aylesbury Rugby Line for freight and dual tracking teh High Wycombe- Aylesbury line for freight and passenger trains, with gauge wide enough for subsequent upgrade to High Speed.
Similar fast passenger lines from Glasgow/Edinburgh in High Speed to Birmingham so that they meet half way
The problem with a scheme such as these two as they would take up an ever increasing and constant share of UK GDP for years longer than one High speed line built in stages with branches to Mid Wales and services to Holyhead and The East Coast ports for freight / produce.
If all of these are rejected then the danget is that instead a Toll Motorway is built on High Speed 2s route which is even more disruptive and will create a two speed manufacturing and industrial economy in Britain and hamper Irish economic growth.
Plus theres the geological risk to the Lake district given energy projects recentlybetween teh Midlands and the Forth / Clyde Firths
ReplyDeleteIn laymans language, how stable is the rock that would be tunnelled through if offshore the old volcanic faults are being drilled for oil and gas or in other locations tunnelled from open cast locations for metals and coal.
Thats why however devolved the UK becomes there is a need for federal or intergovernmental cooperation on the specificiations and route as well as residents input. Thats what all citizens pay the civil service and parliamentarians for.