HS2, is it right for the UK?

andykn

Yes, the benefits to the UK are far too great to ignore.

Road_Hog wrote: »

Countries are not planning to establish a high speed rail network, the EU is. I've already posted the EU link, but here it is again.

http://tentea.ec.europa.eu/images/maps/progress_report_may2010ongoing_projects_20100527_big.jpg


And a Wiki article on TEN-T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Networks

That map has no planned rail link in the UK.

Therefore HS2 is not part of TEN-T on your own evidence.

John_Pierpoint

Have another look, rail is the default link for the transport corridor, If it has a black line along it it then it is a road ( a blue one makes a waterway)
Obviously the brains behind the map failed to realise that having a new railway and a road running beside each other cannot be accurately printed onto the map.

andykn

Yes, the benefits to the UK are far too great to ignore.

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Have another look, rail is the default link for the transport corridor, If it has a black line along it it then it is a road ( a blue one makes a waterway)
Obviously the brains behind the map failed to realise that having a new railway and a road running beside each other cannot be accurately printed onto the map.

Yes, but it's marked as "completed" not "Works to start after 2013"