High speed rail link to Heathrow not good value for money
23.07.10
The Government looks set to axe plans for a Heathrow high-speed rail link after a Conservative peer asked to review access to the airport said there was 'no compelling case' for a direct link - at least to the initial route. Lord Mawhinney said Heathrow should have high-speed access only after the initial phase is extended beyond Birmingham to the north of England.
Lord Mawhinney said that the cost of extending the high-speed route via Heathrow of between £2 - £4 billion would not represent good value for money. He said: ‘As the network expands over time there will be greater demand for access to Heathrow from cities in the north and Scotland, which might make a direct high-speed rail connection to Heathrow more viable. This would only be in prospect after the high-speed network had been extended at least to Manchester and Leeds.’
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