{"id":14325,"date":"2023-10-03T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:31:12","slug":"what-to-do-with-hs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/10\/03\/what-to-do-with-hs2\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with HS2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It does look like HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester is set to be either cancelled or heavily delayed for a decade or more, regrettably. Or just &#8216;not high speed&#8217; north of Birmingham and running on the regular West Coast lines from Birmingham to Manchester (which may even give Stoke a look-in, once a day?).<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s to be a decade long delay then, in the meantime, how about using the purchased route for a superb (if temporary) Birmingham &#8211; Stafford &#8211; Stone &#8211; Crewe bicycle &#8216;motorway&#8217;? That shouldn&#8217;t cost too much, I&#8217;d imagine. Just six strips of tarmac, all the way, presumably. Three going north, three south. Boy-racers and electric-bikes in the &#8216;fast&#8217; lane, slow &#8216;trundlers and tots&#8217; in the slow lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does look like HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester is set to be either cancelled or heavily delayed for a decade or more, regrettably. Or just &#8216;not high speed&#8217; north of Birmingham and running on the regular West Coast lines from Birmingham to Manchester (which may even give Stoke a look-in, once a day?). If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}