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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.
Posted by: Thomas Barry
Date/Time: 30/10/13 15:13:00

"For business travellers who fly often, particularly to Europe and the far east, it hardly makes sense to fly over London then have to take a train or taxi back into it"

Why not?  It's a ridiculous argument (planes are fast, crossing London is a tiny fraction of a longhaul trip) but even if we take it at face value travellers from Ireland, South America, the US and Canada have to fly over London to get to Grain.  It's not really relevant.

What you're proposing, given that HS2 is about adding capacity on N-S rail corridors, is presumably that people wanting to get from London to Manchester schlep 20 miles the wrong way, go through tedious airport check in and security, burn fossil fuel for 45 minutes first going up and then going down, land on the edge of Manchester, stand about in baggage reclaim and then get a train into town.

I'm suggesting taking a high speed train city centre to city centre in about an hour and a eight minutes using less energy, generated in a much less polluting way.  In what conceivable way is the Grain Airport alternative better than that?  Surely if you're building multibillion pound infrastructure, build it where people want to go rather than putting it where it would cause maximum inconvenience?

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
HS2 raillink.29/10/13 17:47:00 Gerry Tan
   Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:11:00 Keith Iddon
      Re:Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:13:00 Gerry Tan
         Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:14:00 Keith Iddon
            Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:27:00 Gerry Tan
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:40:00 Keith Iddon
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.29/10/13 18:40:00 Nigel Brooks
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.30/10/13 14:05:00 Penny Crocker
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.30/10/13 14:15:00 Keith Iddon
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.30/10/13 15:13:00 Thomas Barry
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.30/10/13 15:17:00 Keith Iddon
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.31/10/13 02:12:00 Rosa Popham
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:HS2 raillink.02/11/13 16:18:00 Keith Mason

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