Maybe tell that to the government who spent billions on a rail line that doesn’t even deliver on what it was designed for. In the mean time thousands of acres of irreplaceable countryside has been destroyed, including internationally protected wildlife sites, ancient woodlands and legally protected sites of special scientific interest. The only people prospering from this white elephant are the Tory party and HS2.
Pristine coral reefs discovered near Galápagos Islands are thousands of years old and teeming with life (www.livescience.com)
Ancient pear tree comes back to life after being felled to make way for HS2 (www.theguardian.com)
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