12th January 2012, 09:58 AM
Arhaeological issues aside I cannot see how, in a country where local government is cutting front line services to the bone, the vast expense of this rail link can be justified. The way technologies are going who actually needs to travel ? I can understand using it for freight but apart from allowing workers in London to compute to the north what does it really do? A vast red herring that will make a few jobs in the short term for the construction companies ( and archaeologists) and will be redundant before it is built. I don't want my taxes going on something like this. xx( I will eat my hat if it is ever completed