Even if part of HS2 is cancelled, UK transport policy is a high-speed route to chaos | Simon Jenkins

I’m glad the folly that is HS2 is being scaled back, but the schemes replacing it are not much better

This week, a rare outbreak of sanity is predicted in British government rail policy. The eastern branch of David Cameron’s HS2 vanity railway is likely to be cancelled in favour of a flurry of other improvements to rail services. Rather than whingeing, red-wall Tories should be cheering. Their constituents should be getting about sooner and faster, rather than merely getting more swiftly to Londo...