• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    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

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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      The offer was always about capacity rather than speed, something which is clearly desperately needed.

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      4 days ago

      Investing in infrastructure is waste of money when this money can be given to job creators.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    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

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      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 😎🍹

  • Darkard@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And people still think the Tories aren’t full of empty promises and enrichment of business friends with public money.

  • Francisco@lemmy.world
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    They are just serving those who can claim back the ticket money. Mostly, you know, those that use your money to pay those tickets.