On Mar 12, 9:40*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Basil Jet wrote:
Shouldn't the high speed line run from St Pancras, as an extension (via
reversal) of the Kent domestics?

Yes, of course it should. Did you really need to ask?

Just as it needs to go via - via, not also to - Heathrow. And (eventually)
run London - Brum - Manchester - Newcastle, not have two lines up each
side of the country. All completely bloody obvious, and of course also
completely beyond the grasp of everyone making the decisions.

"All completely bloody obvious..." - ???

And then some more ???

Er, why is it all so "bloody obvious" - how so?

There's a huge amount of documentation in the overall HS2 report, with
a fair amount about the various route options. Whilst it's not going
to happen, it seems to be a slightly more rigorous exercise than
merely shooting from the hip.