12-02-2020, 11:24 AM
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He does have a point.After all HS2 isn't all about bums on seats it's also about rapid transport of freight.
Taking horribly polluting trucks off our trunk roads where in addition to the filth they quite literally pump out into the air we breathe and damage the environment they occupy a huge footprint on the roads and are a real danger to all.
We need to move to bulk transport by other than road, and local distribution from freight terminals by non polluting means.
12-02-2020, 12:04 PM
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I was born and bred in Stranraer near Portpatrick where this bridge is proposed to start from Scotland. Those of us from Galloway are well aware of the depth of the Irish Sea, Beauforts Dyke and the munitions dumped there after the war.Munitions are routinely washed up on local shores due to the fact that many of the ships doing the dumping didn’t go as far as Beaufort as they didn’t fancy the heavy seas. Add to that the main road (A75) isn’t fit for purpose as it is and it doesn’t go as far Portpatrick.
The announcement coming a couple of days before the go ahead for the purely English project HS2 is, how can I put it, suspicious.
12-02-2020, 12:30 PM
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If they do go ahead with the bridge I hope they pick a better design than the new £1.35bn Queensferry crossing. It has been closed since Monday with ice falling from the supporting cables damaging cars crossing. Luckily nobody has been seriously injured. Latest news the bridge has just reopened.
12-02-2020, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by weedeek
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I was born and bred in Stranraer near Portpatrick where this bridge is proposed to start from Scotland. Those of us from Galloway are well aware of the depth of the Irish Sea, Beauforts Dyke and the munitions dumped there after the war.Munitions are routinely washed up on local shores due to the fact that many of the ships doing the dumping didn’t go as far as Beaufort as they didn’t fancy the heavy seas. Add to that the main road (A75) isn’t fit for purpose as it is and it doesn’t go as far Portpatrick.
The announcement coming a couple of days before the go ahead for the purely English project HS2 is, how can I put it, suspicious.
12-02-2020, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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He does have a point. After all HS2 isn't all about bums on seats it's also about rapid transport of freight.
Taking horribly polluting trucks off our trunk roads where in addition to the filth they quite literally pump out into the air we breathe and damage the environment they occupy a huge footprint on the roads and are a real danger to all.
We need to move to bulk transport by other than road, and local distribution from freight terminals by non polluting means.
ever meant to carry freight at all? I have never seen a mention of
freight any where?
How can they fit freight trains in with the projected 14 high speed
trains per hr they optimisticly boast about??
All these promises are just to motivate more money out of our
gullible politicians!!
Donkeyman!
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