Unit Four - Source B

Main Points: 

A new high speed rail network would transform the UK's economic geography.

  • It could bring cities closer
  • Enable businesses to operate more productively 
  • Support employment and regeneration 
  • Provide a genuine alternative to domestic aviation 
  • Create a platform for sustainable economic growth and prosperity

This railway (HS2) that connects all major cities including Heathrow Airport would cost £32 billion to construct and would generate wider benefits of £44 billion as well as revenues totalling a further £27 billion.

Benefits of the HS2:

  • Slash Journey times 
  • Deliver a huge increase in capacity to meet rising demand and ease over crowding 
  • Would enable the UK's key urban centres to attract new businesses and directly access the eocnomic strength of London and the South East 
  • Create 40,000 Jobs 

Links: 

  1. http://www.go-hs2.com/BenefitsOfHS2/BenefitsOfHS2.aspx

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