High Speed Rail Announced yet Again

Thought I had ranted about this previously but can't find it. Main story being touted by every two bit news outfit that laps up shitt here.

Essentially Lord Adonis has done his 4 monthly pop up and pretend there will be a High Speed rail network, because high speed rail is good for the economy, high speed rail is sexy, high speed rail looks cool and high speed rail has agreed to have his babies.

The snag? well it's going to be 10 years before work starts and there might have be public consultations. These consultations of course are not actually going to be open to the public, just HMG quangos and companies that want to bid to build the line. Assuming it happens at, which it wont.

Therefore it's just the same bollocks fantasy regurgitated and regurgitated and the ever helpful BBC, blissfully unaware of their railway timetable update sidebar which has tracked this nonsense shows just how much cock is waffled on the subject.

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Scotland

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