• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Rishi Sunak’s cuts to HS2 will leave more motorists sitting in traffic jams as companies abandon plans to shift freight from lorries on to rail, transport bosses have warned.

    After that part of the project was scrapped, the prime minister was accused of a “senseless and counterproductive” U-turn –and warned his policy would lead to “major backlogs on our already congested roads”.

    The warning shot comes after Mr Sunak unveiled a “plan for drivers” and reallocated billions from the HS2 budget to road upgrades in a bid to cast himself as the friend of the motorist.

    Without this vital additional capacity, plans to improve the UK’s freight and passenger services will be restricted," said Alex Veitch, director of policy and insights at the British Chambers of Commerce.

    "Each train that HS2’s capacity would have unlocked had the potential to remove up to 129 lorries from the road, this will also be a lost opportunity to build a low-carbon freight transport system.

    Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrats’ transport spokesperson, said: “This is yet another broken promise from Rishi Sunak, which will end up causing major backlogs on our already congested roads and railway lines.”


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  • ConfusedMeAgain@lemmy.world
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    Sunak doesn’t understand why people don’t just fly over the traffic in their helicopters. Stupid lazy ground people.

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    Those motorists who voted for Brexit can console themselves with the knowledge that the smug liberal elites who would otherwise be breezing past them on a high-speed train are stuck in the same traffic jam, breathing in the same diesel fumes.

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      1 year ago

      Brexit hasn’t done us any favours, but I don’t really see what it has to do directly with the scrappage of HS2 phase 2?

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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      And anyone that isn’t a “smug liberal elite” and also can’t drive for whatever reason, is either sat on the floor next to the toilet on a packed cross country service, or just staying at home because it’s too expensive to travel.