HOW on earth can anyone possibly justify spending £32 billion on a high speed rail link that will permanently destroy hundreds of thousands of acres of England’s most beautiful countryside – merely to shorten the rail journey between London and Birmingham by 25 minutes?
Oscar Wilde could well have been referring to this government when he wrote , “They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing”.
This high-speed rail link is nothing less than an act of state-sponsored environmental vandalism.
ROBERT READMAN, Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth
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