HS2 costs and benefits: a search for clear evidence | Letters

Joan Walley, former chair of the environmental audit select committee, and others react to a government review of the high-speed rail projectPhilip Inman asserts that “HS2 has been 15 years in the making and is the best compromise option the transport ministry and its advisers could come up with for improving the UK’s transport system” (Business view, 22 August). HS2’s problem is that it is uncompromising: it was designed to run very fast, and therefore in an almost strai