HS2

I have no particular axe to grind about the idea of creating a new high speed line between London and Birmingham. I do not travel by train, and the proposed line runs nowhere near my home.  So perhaps I can look at the proposal with an open mind.  And I find it difficult to believe that cutting some 20 minutes off the travelling time between those two cities will in any way repay within any meaningful time frame the enormous cost of constructing the new line, not to mention the disruption which will be caused.  So personally I don't think the case has been made.