The future of the proposed High Speed 2 rail project has been put in further doubt after a major critic of the scheme was appointed deputy chair of a review launched by the government on Wednesday.
HS2 currently threatens 108 ancient woods with loss or damage across England. These woods cannot be moved and can never be replaced. The review must consider more than just the financial costs of HS2:
Yet there's no money for social care, the NHS, the police force, education. Meanwhile, let's not forget that incomplete carrier that's overbudget and undelivered. What has Failing Grayling alone manage to waste away from his disasterous stint with prisons to transport?
It's a preposterous waste of money. Trains are perfectly fast enough on this route. Build an HS line from Liverpool to Hull.
typical BorisJohnson spending millions of pounds not building things hs2 gardenbridge borisisland airport . tories brexit
Good. Huge waste of money.
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