Quote of the day 26th January 2020

"The M1 took 35 years from first proposal to its opening. Otherwise no significant transport corridor North from London has been built since Queen Victoria's reign.

All our existing corridors, road and rail, are choked. As this century proceeds, with new housing new towns, new landscape protections, it's going to get harder to break through. Yet transport pressure is intense and must grow.

This year a new corridor is nearing readiness. And having talked ourselves into it, we're now in danger of talking ourselves out of it again.

We must be crazy."

(Matthew Parris demonstrates that when he stops obsessing about Brexit he is still sometimes capable of hitting nails directly on the head in a Times article,

"We owe it to the next generation to build HS2.")

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