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Sometimes you hear about it, sometimes you don’t. It probably depends what type of information the government want you to know but they’ve already released the worse of it. people’s houses are going and nature is losing its home. 

It’s hard to put into words how much of an affect this is going to have on people, it’s almost like the parting of the seas, but with modern day technology and big bosses only seeing pound signs in their eyes.  
The reality for those physically involved is that they’re going to be homeless and towns that have been shaped over generations will be distorted, all for the high speed railway as UK government try to be as high tech as China. 

I’m not going to remain neutral about this topic, it bothers me.
I live on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line, not going to lie, it’s done brilliant things for the lives surrounding it, I can get between two different cities in 40 minutes each way. However, back in 1830 when it opened, it had a different perspective, connecting Manchester textile mills with liverpools ship ports to send out what goods our north had to offer to the world, later carrying mail to connect our voices. In its first 15 years, it produced the best profits that any British Railway company has ever made.

As the years went on it became more of a commuter track and more recently electrified which didn’t go down well with residents and that was merely wires above the existing track. 
The sheer idea of the government drawing lines over families, schools, nature and going ‘yeah, dig it up’ for what?! To make travel time less? Who does it benefit? In the long run, it would be second nature to us, but right now, 2016, it only benefits the government. Or not, since they’ve already spend £55 billion. 
Yeah it would be nice to get places in a faster time, but we have 24 hours in a day, surely we can spend an extra hour of it peering out the window of a virgin train looking at the beautiful green countryside, whilst it lasts. 
What annoys me more is that current rail companies have some of the worst customer service, delays and prices, why aren’t these being fixed first? Not to mention carbon emissions,  noise and water supply. Get it together Department For Transport.

Amy Ellen