Not really Was in Manchester Royal Infirmary earlier today The nurses were telling me that the staff are focused on normal winter conditions plus covid this year, any increase in covid will utterly k… (View Post)

What about all the vast numbers of people who have taken 3 jabs, who are waiting on critical health care but are having in cancelled due to the hospitals being overwhelmed ? Which is happening loads,… (View Post)

Removing one high speed train from the old ECML, WCML or MML and putting it on HS2 provides paths for 3 commuter or freight trains. The major failure from todays announcement is that those intercity … (View Post)

From about 5mins this gives a really good explanation of why HSw2 offers those local benefits well away from the new line. Those local benefits will no longer happen away from the missing line.... ht… (View Post)

Upgrading existing lines is far more disruptive than building new ones. See how disruptive and how little the WCML upgrade delivered. (View Post)