Because of course it has…
Offer: high speed rail to connect the north and reduce people’s transit time
Best we can do: price hikes and fewer seats
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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The offer was always about capacity rather than speed, something which is clearly desperately needed.
Investing in infrastructure is waste of money when this money can be given to job creators.
Then how do people get to the jobs without any infrastructure
How is that a job creator's problem...
Give them more money to solve it tho!
This was always known to be the result of cancelling by anyone that has been paying attention.
HS2 is direly needed infrastructure work that we've needed since the 90s
We are at capacity on the west coast mainline, this makes everything more expensive, not just rail, as it's an important freight route.
Short sighted
We are at capacity on the west coast mainline
Don't worry, as we continue to price people out of rail travel (poor people were priced out years ago, we've almost cut the whole lower middle class out too, just a little further, I believe we can do it!), fewer people will travel and that'll reduce the hit on your capacity.
All part of our genius plan 😎🍹
And people still think the Tories aren't full of empty promises and enrichment of business friends with public money.
They are just serving those who can claim back the ticket money. Mostly, you know, those that use your money to pay those tickets.
£66bn and counting...