CNJ COMMENT: HS2: it’s all about who you know

Published: 22 September, 2011

IT is claimed that it will be possible to run up to 18 trains per hour from Euston on a single two-way high speed line.

Campaigners rightly ask whether this is possible.

Where are costings?

Admissions by the Transport Minister Norman Baker that Camden could be hit because its campaigners are “not as well connected” will heap further concerns on those who oppose the scheme.

The Conservative Transport Secretary is certainly keen to proceed with HS2, lest the country is left behind world leaders like China or the US.  At least 400 homes are threatened with demolition in a project that will transform Camden forever.

But then it’s all about who you know, not what you know.