A leading business lobby group has called on
the government to abandon its controversial high-speed rail project.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) said a survey of its members showed
businesses were unconvinced by the economic case for HS2.
The IoD's director general, Simon Walker, described the project as “one
grand folly”.
So on top of all the existing
groups that don’t want HS2 we can now add big business, apart from the government
is there anybody left that’s actually in favour of this thing?
While the government have put their
eggs in the wrong basket with this project, they have at least left themselves plenty
of time to realise their error in judgment and scrap the project.
If the government does press ahead
and ignore pretty much everybody then what we’ll end up with is a high speed
rail link that won’t be built on time, will come in massively over budget,
which nobody wanted, and that won’t benefit the economy in the way it was
hoped.
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