It can ... so your point is misconstrued.

yes, it set decades ago....

exactly

Watch the Tory betrayal of the North unfold - they will scrap HS2 to the North leaving jobs and money in the south as usual.

@@thomyoutube3478 Labour would do the same thing: BOTH Parties are deathly afraid, to the point of being terrorized, of the fanatical environmentallists, an example of whom can be seen in the video. These eco-terrorists reject all facts, especially economic facts, concerning the impoverishment of average folks, because of some theoretical future series of events that NONE of the computer models from 15 years ago came to pass. Those models gave supposed CERTAIN figures pertaining to temperatures, both land and sea temps, that have NOT been taken place and have not happened. Sea levels were supposed to rise to certain measurements, and THAT did NOT happen! Despite their 'bona fides' computer models having been proven wrong, they STILL maintain the 'chicken little' paradigm to this very day! They do NOT care about poor people, nor working class people, no small businesses, and they utterly despise large businesses and certainly corporations! They act as if NO working class people actually work for corporations! They don't care that those folks must maintain households, raise children, pay bills, etc. The HS2 factual basis for construction, the specific construction numbers do NOT matter to the radical eco-terrorists: they oppose its construction on theoretical reasons and no concrete evidence pertaining to the benefits of the HS2 matter to them.

@@jrbailey3208 Maybe. But for the Tories its a knife twist to the North. They will make exceptions for the section to Birmingham then use the "environment" as an excuse to go no further. Agreed about environmentalism. Mostly middle class, wealthy and insulated from the decline in living standards that will occur as another round of austerity ("justified" by radical environmentalists) hammers the poor of this country again, furthering the wealth divide.

@@thomyoutube3478 Actually, I do believe this last election provided some strong evidence that the Tories have changed their minds about both the Midlands and the North: for the first time in a 100 years, the Tories saw CLEAR evidence that they're not pissing into the wind with staunch/generational Labour voters, who were willing to actually give the Tories a chance to do what BoJo and Co. said they would: work their butts off to create policies that would help those folks. I must clearly admit to you that I'm a Hobbsian/Lockian Capitalist: if Govt. would just get OUT of the way (read bureaucratic paper pushing know-nothings who've never really worked outside of govt. circles, local and up), small and medium businesses ("mom and pop" to privately owned companies employing up to 300 people mostly), the amount of wealth generated for EVERYONE would be quite astounding (new jobs created, putting money into working people's pockets, which they could invest in financial avenues to improve their lives toward retirement, and/or pay down outstanding debt, etc.). Sadly, professional bureaucrats put severe stumbling blocks in the way of all businesses that have NOTHING to do with keeping the environment safe, much less improving it, nor in maintaining safety for workers, nor anything else constructive: they put paperwork impediments in place to further secure their own jobs and create new do nothing jobs for other bureaucrats! BoJo (I'm an independent, so no Tory here) may actually mean what he says about increasing opportunities for everyone, and the first tests will be the negotiations with the EU, NHS Reform, and the Educatioinal System (getting AWAY from the PC/Woke/SJW political indoctrination currently rampant in schools would be a good start). Time will tell, but right now, there seems to be goodwill from historical Labour voters and in the Tory camp........so let's cross our fingers and keep an eye on what is being done!

@@jrbailey3208 Sensible chap. Good to see there are some of you folk still around on the youtube comments. Lets wait and see..

But this only goes marginly faster than our current rail network?

And travelling my rail is massivly more expensive than going by road.

And the alternative is building 3x the amount of fucking motorways!

One way you can affect travel demand is the pricing of the tickets. The higher the fares, the lower the demand. The lower the fares, the higher the demand. However, if the fares are set too low, there will be immense overcrowding. Most sections of the railway network have taken up capacity of the train's pathings, so the fares are higher than usual in order to prevent the running travelling at a standstill, so you can't simply "buy more trains". The high-speed trains will transfer over to their own dedicated rail line that is HS2, so there will be opportunities for more local trains to maximise capacity, resulting in local stations getting higher frequencies. That way, the fares would reduce and more people will ditch their car for public transport.

Do u really think so, when the amount of harm done to the environment via this project will likely never be changed, as it’s so high that it will require lots of work to reduce the harm done, the amount of natural land destroyed will never be replaced. You can’t replace centuries of natural land ! Shame on people like you defending this useless atrocity of a project named HS2 !