What price Ash Wednesday artefacts? | Letters

An early topic for Lord Adonis’s infrastructure commission to consider should be a railway system fit for the 22nd century (Report, 31 October). Instead of playing at catch up with the rest of the world with the HS2 and HS3 schemes, why not invest in maglev for both? This would be a more acceptable justification  of the disruption that construction would cause and put the UK ahead of the game.
Bogumit Polachowski
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