Given the Government's decision to go ahead with the HS2, would it be too much to ask that we follow the example of the French.
That is, we get the thing done as a national priority and not just through to Birmingham but on to Manchester and Leeds.
One of the things I admire about the French is that once they decide, at a national level, on a grand projet, they get on with it. According to reports, the legislation for the initial phase, through to Birmingham, won't come before parliament before 2014.
Honestly! It would be quicker to get a referendum on Scottish independence!
Wherever and whatever route is used, someone will be affected and so will someone's view. Sorry (not really though) but that's the price of progress and I really think we do need to progress.
Some of the opposition to the proposal suggest that the current congestion on trains could be eased if more carriages were added to existing trains and platforms extended. Well let's do that as well. The indications or proposal suggests that the first phase won't be complete before 2026, anyway!
I am really not sure I understand why it will take 14 years to build a railway line and yet we got the whole London Olympics site built in less than 7 years!
Let's get this done and done now.
Cameron and Co need to put the national interest before party interest and tell the constituencies through which the line goes, this is the way it is!
One further point though. It is my understanding that one reason the French manage to get their grand projet through is that they don't penny-pinch on compensation and they accommodate those that they effect - so build under-passes for farmers etc. In other words they buy-off a lot of the moaners!
That is, we get the thing done as a national priority and not just through to Birmingham but on to Manchester and Leeds.
One of the things I admire about the French is that once they decide, at a national level, on a grand projet, they get on with it. According to reports, the legislation for the initial phase, through to Birmingham, won't come before parliament before 2014.
Honestly! It would be quicker to get a referendum on Scottish independence!
Wherever and whatever route is used, someone will be affected and so will someone's view. Sorry (not really though) but that's the price of progress and I really think we do need to progress.
Some of the opposition to the proposal suggest that the current congestion on trains could be eased if more carriages were added to existing trains and platforms extended. Well let's do that as well. The indications or proposal suggests that the first phase won't be complete before 2026, anyway!
I am really not sure I understand why it will take 14 years to build a railway line and yet we got the whole London Olympics site built in less than 7 years!
Let's get this done and done now.
Cameron and Co need to put the national interest before party interest and tell the constituencies through which the line goes, this is the way it is!
One further point though. It is my understanding that one reason the French manage to get their grand projet through is that they don't penny-pinch on compensation and they accommodate those that they effect - so build under-passes for farmers etc. In other words they buy-off a lot of the moaners!
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