This is Derbyshrie: This eye-wateringly expensive high-speed rail link will be a huge white elephant and saddle us all with debt

media • Media • Monday 30 January 2012

According to the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), this railway will cost us £45 billion – more than £1,700 per household.

We are not against high-speed rail but putting all this into a single line that will be used by a relatively small number of mainly wealthy people is the wrong priority and will saddle the country with yet more debt.

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