Alternatives on the table to UK’s HS2 Eastern Leg
An under-reported study has emerged proposing several strategic alternatives to the HS2 Phase 2b Eastern Leg – the contentiously cancelled project in the UK government Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP). An independent assessment on behalf of the UK government’s Department for Transport offers alternatives to the dedicated high-speed line that would have served important cities, including Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds, and ultimately connected HS2 to the East Coast Main Line.
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Any investment providing for redundancy (robustness) is a big bonus. (“French concept”, splitting cargo and person traffic, is beneficial.)
Simply, by avoiding complexity at tracks, high capacity and high utilisation, safely is ensured. (Current cargo customers have shifted to “On Demand” and now urgently demand quality as high, as otherwise available!…Any technicality, not sustainable, but vulnerable and frequently providing for disturbances, now has to be outed, etc…!