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Arthur Figgis

On 05/01/2014 08:54, tim...... wrote:

"Arthur Figgis" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 03/01/2014 20:32, d wrote:

If the government had been honest and said simply that the west coast
main
line has reached capacity and a new parallel line is needed I suspect
most
people would be for HS2 or some version of it. But selling it as a
way just to
shave 15 mins off a trip to brum was moronic and quite rightly people
said it
would be a waste of money.

The official stuff did say that. Unfortunately no-one official seems
to have stepped to shout about it once NIMBYs and the media decided to
run with "OMFG 100 million billion quid to cut 20 minutes off London -
Birmingham and who wants to go to anywhere outside the M25 anyway".

It doesn't help that much of the official position seems to come from
engineering types, so is accurate

Except that it's not. By comparison with other commuter lines into
London, Euston services are not "full"

Load factors on the central section of the Central Line are low[1] in
comparison with Bangladesh Railways at a religious festival = Crossrail
isn't needed.

[1] At least I assume so, on the basis that not many people travel on
the outside of Central Line trains.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK