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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Aug 10, 2022 ^^
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Thanks for pointing out the existing rails are full. One tip though: Mixed stopping patterns currently, extremely restrict capacity further. If you stop putting express trains on the old tracks, you don’t just increase local trains by the same amount — you can double or triple it! The gaps between trains are CRAZY when you have slow trains in front of fast trains.
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It's not taxpayer money. That's what everyone seems to forget about this: it's being funded through capital expenditure, essentially borrowing against a future return on investment. We wouldn't be saving money by not building it, because the money essentially doesn't exist until it's invested in something real: the rails, the stations, the trains, and the jobs. You can't point to a single penny in your tax bill that goes towards major new infrastructure projects; it was the same with Crossrail.
Also, the entire carbon footprint of building HS2 is equivalent to one month of emissions from road transport. Given the immense potential of the railway to take cars off the roads, both directly and indirectly through releasing capacity on the existing network, I'd say that's a price worth paying.
Or it would be, if it were actually being built properly. The truncated mess that's being built now is an embarrassment.
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The big issue in the North (where I live) is that it is a chore to get anywhere. The distance btw Leeds and Manchester is no longer than the Piccadilly line. TPE and Northern are disasters in terms of reliability. The real benefit would be going E - to - W rather than thinking that life begins and ends in London.
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London to Birmingham wont make much of a difference, but if they keep going and eventually get it to Scotland then it will make good sense, In Japan they started from Osaka to Tokyo. But little by little it kept growing and now its from one end of the country to the other and its well appreciated. Edinburugh to London in a straight line is 332 miles. Tokyo to Osaka is 315 miles . Tokyo to Osaka by Shinkansen takes 2.5 to 3 hours. Now that would be well worth having in the UK and would improve the economy in the North.
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@AbroadinJapan
1 year ago
As someone who rides the Shinkansen weekly between Sendai and Tokyo, it makes two cities almost 400km apart feel like they're practically next door. The journey time is about 1 hour 20 mins (5-6 hours by car) and the smooth ride spent gliding across the countryside is an absolute joy. I never particularly enjoyed riding trains until I ended up in Japan. The Shinkansen were seen as a monumental waste of money before they were operational and then they quickly became the pride of the nation. Superb video though - this is the first time I've seen the pros and cons of HS2 explained clearly!
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