Not if Scotland gets its independence!!:cool:
My friends north of the border have told me they don’t want independence . Labour has just beaten SNP not a great result.
I drive to within 40 miles of Aberdeen regularly and from where we are it’s dual carriageway or motorway virtually all the way. The motorway network goes to Perth currently and is decent standard roads to Aberdeen. The A9, is I believe a bit of nightmare but it always was and I suspect geography may be the limiting fact there.
I agree that a motorway between Manchester and Sheffield would be nice but again geography may play a part.
Once the main HS2 network is build, who knows where it might be extended to next. Are we really saying that HS2 has to be on your doorstep before there is any benefit?
There is no doubt that spending the money tinkering with the existing road and rail network would have some effect but for how long? Why not look forward and invest in something worthwhile?
M62 got over the geography problems 20ish miles north.
Try driving from England to Aberdeen, ok until you get to Gateshead it’s not bad. But on the Newcastle A1 bypass after the angel of the north it’s a nightmare, up to Edinburgh takes hours due to a single track road with some dual track bits, after Edinburgh it reverts back to mostlly single track roads again.
Not saying HS2 is wrong but the money could be spent better. Capacity in 20 years is needed.
Why not open up the Beeching lines? Go to Sustrans and see how many cycle tracks are old rail line. I can think of a few local ones, Selby to York for one.
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