High-Speed Rail in Britain.

The Shinkansen below Mount Fuji, Japan.

The Gare do Oriente Station, Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo: Jonas Tesch)

The Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnof Station, Germany. (Photo: Heiko Dassow)

The Lyon-Satolas TGV Station, Lyon, France. (Photo: Nathan Tyler Jensen)

The AVE on the Jalon Viaduct between Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. (Photo: Spanish Rail)

Eurostar at St Pancras, London.

The AVE at Zaragoza Delicias Station, Spain. (Photo: Thealx)

The Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnof Station, Germany. (Photo: Heiko Dassow)

The Avignon TGV Station, France. (Photo: Gordon Joly)

Arriving at St Pancras from HS1. (Photo: Michael Walter/Troika)

Proposed HSR station at Napoli, Italy by Zaha Hadid. (Render: Zaha Hadid)

HS2 – why the critics are wrong

20 December, 2010

This report looks at the arguments against HS2 articulated by a recent commentator, including that the business case does not stack up. We found that none of the arguments survived scrutiny.

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