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Secret tunnel

vendredi 29 janvier 2021 à 01:00

Opponents of the HS2 high-speed train line secretly built a tunnel next to Euston Station to block construction, using techniques from prison escape tunnels.

What astounds me even more is that they consider blocking an electric train line to be part of climate defense. The usual reason for high-speed trains is to substitute for air travel and thus reduce global heating.

It does seem like bad design to run that line out of Euston rather than from St Pancras, where the high-speed trains arrive from France. It is only 10 minutes' walk from St Pancras to Euston, but the need to change trains will make a much bigger delay.