‘HS2 cancellation puts half a million trucks on British roads’
In the UK, the decision has been taken to scale back the HS2 high-speed rail project, and cancel everything except the London – Birmingham core route and a short branch to the East Midlands. That has significant negative impacts for rail freight development, environmental concerns, and for road congestion. That’s the summary of findings from freight carriers, revealed in the British press. The loss of the HS2 “Northern Leg”, which would have directly connected Manchester and relieved the West Coast Main Line, has raised concerns for future rail freight capacity.
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Extremely misleading information.
To ‘Headline’ … ‘HS2 cancellation will result in 500,000 extra trucks on British Roads’ is absolute hogwash.
When 500,000 relates to the number of actual truck movements per annum
500,000 ÷ 365 = 1,370 truck movements per day, and as a ‘Truck Movement’ constitutes the journey between loading and delivering, then its highly probable that loading ‘groupage’ for three drop points, then return to base = 365÷4=91 ‘extra’ trucks/day, a far cry from 500,000.