Thinking about HS2 and ££££

First let me say I am not far, about 10M, from the planned HS2 route through Bucks/Oxon.

1 The HS2 will bring ZERO to me, it is a £32B investment only for three or four big cities.

2 The investment must be shared, all of us have to benefit in one way or another, in equal terms

So what should we spend the money on?

If you think about the social and business trends, these point to people being moved apart, not coming together in big cities. People want to live spread out, and yet have work nearby to reduce travel costs. How can this be done?

To work together requires two things, communication and material transport. We need communications such as fast information networks to interconnect our homes, offices and data centres, providing resources like video phone/conference capabilities, shared databases, cloud computing…. And we need transport both for sending parts of a product to other locations for work to be done, or for delivery of the final product. Best provided by short haul road transport.Think electric lorries...

Neither of these objectives is met by building a white elephant high speed people transporting railway between just a few cities! And reducing travel times by a miserable 1/2 hour!

So let's change this and get some things done which will develop society in future directions and benefit us all.