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Euston National Rail to LUL is not going to be higher if there was another National Rail to LUL interchange, anywhere in Zone 1. With hindsight most people realise that ringing central London with main line termini during the 19th Century was less than ideal, in 2019 we should not be repeating...

Another terminal station is a massive failure. Another station detached from the transport hub at New Street is a second massive failure. The Zurich project is well worth a read. It translates very well towards Manchester or Birmingham. Crossrail 2 on the other hand, not committed, will need...

None of this is funded. Crossrail 2 will leave little change from £40bn. A railway dumping another 100,000 a day at Euston and expecting someone else to clear up the mess as well as saturating Crossrail 1 is a project that needs a rethink.

The demand forecast for National Rail to LUL at Euston 2010-2037 in the AM peak is of the order 30,000 to 65,000. Are you sure this isn't mainly to do with HS2? Tube travel has actually stagnated in recent years.

The Swiss did all of this for something like £3bn. It is after all one station, 4 platforms and a few km of tunnel. About 20% of Crossrail.

Only HS2 trains use the new station at Birmingham. There is an added delay and capacity constraint resulting at all HS2 stations that are terminals. Large terminal stations are a bad habit we should be moving away from. All HS2 trains still have to use Euston. Again HS2 ends there, it doesn't...

Wasn't your post relates to EV batteries? They are considerably more than 30KWH these days.

Wasn't your post about EV batteries? They are considerably more than 30KWH these days.

Nissan Leaf accord to Wiki is 40-62KWH.

Very few people outside the M25 can walk to a fast London train (or even their nearest conurbation) in 15mins from their door. Where that is the case you will find rail has a high modal share and car ownership is much lower.

HS2 relieves relatively few paths into the major conurbations the vast majority of which of local trains. At Euston, even leveraging OOC, there is a more than doubling 2010-37 of National Rail LUL interchanges under Phase 2 as East Coast / East Midlands custom is sucked out of KGX/STP. I don't...

Most advocates of zero net carbon would have you believe it can be done without shrinking the economy and will actually generate additional jobs. The focus being decarbonisation of what is already there and not building any more airports or main roads. I am not aware of any mainstream party...

In Switzerland they operate a timetable based on the infrastructure that exists. Here they operate based on the infrastructure they wish they had. The arguments for HS2 as provincial capacity relief are very weak. Little of the congestion at New Street or Piccadilly is caused by those London...

Outside London most rail networks are slow, inconvenient grossly underutilised with tiny trains running very full even at peak times that can't operate without huge subsidies even when they are completely full. You would be much better off looking schemes to get more routes into or under the...

So all those people owning cars are wrong? People en masse make rational choices, when you live in a field surrounded by houses you need a car. If you want to reduce car ownership (remember that is where most of the emissions come with EVs, not from actual use) then a completely different...

Putting a huge number of new homes in an empty green field by virtue of it being an airfield 70 years ago is not sensible planning and is not conducive to public transport. It is clear from the expansion of station parking what effect token gestures are having. Sadly HS2 is but another example...

Coal generated electricity has been replaced by gas and wind. I am unclear what you are proposing to replace the M1 with? Road vehicle usage has barely grown in 20 years. Rather like the rail network, usage grows when capacity is increased and little expansion has taken place since the 1990s...

Annual road vehicle miles are of the order 250bn. You are talking about 4m road journeys perhaps 450m passenger miles, in which case 300m vehicle miles. 250bn. 0.3bn.

It is really because money is not unlimited, although you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise these past few weeks of electioneering. I see no evidence of either planning or local transport being improved despite a reheated £500m to reverse Beeching cuts without any detail on which 5 lines...