>> Environmental disaster again. Simply untrue. London centric? howso when it joins the two major cities.
>> And the fact seats will be filled means its not needed? Weird logic that.
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>> Sounds like a rant from a person on the route to me, More value in
>> connecting northern cities?NIMBYISM.
Yes, just uninformed opinion I'm afraid, coloured with my prejudices. It's also pretty obvious that it was conceived as a vanity project and the case was made to fit the objective.
I don't live on the route, and I still think of myself as a northerner. And I'd like to see the north work better. Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester are like separate countries, the rail journeys between them are mostly an hour or more and the road journey isn't much better especially Sheffield-Manchester.
Not nimbyism. But I know a lot of places that are going to be badly despoiled and I just don't see the general benefit. Commuting should surely reduce, not increase, from now?
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