As normal trains face cuts why HS2?
It’s not only the route but the principal I have concerns over for the foreseeable future and perhaps ever…
We lost a number of Virgin fast services from Lichfield Trent Valley last year because of subsidy cutbacks meaning it’s not nearly as practical or convenient to use there as it was.
Now there are likely to be more reductions in train services in general nationally because of the crisis in funding left by the last government.
Economic benefit to Staffordshire or a new convenient commuter belt?
And HS2, the last and current government’s proposal for a high speed train link from London northwards to Manchester and possibly beyond, is thirty odd billion I just cannot see the justification for in anything like the short or even medium term.
In fact, apart from tearing a swathe through some of the most rural and pituresque landscape in the central counties of England, including around Lichfield and Tamworth in my patch, I’m unconvinced of its suggested positive economic impact on the Midlands and certainly question that in Staffordshire.
Instead of businesses in London deciding to expand into Staffordshire, as suggested, I worry it is far more likely that businesses based here and in other parts of the Midlands, with a forty minute journey, will see an opportunity to use Staffordshire as a new commuter belt.
That would mean moving their trading and business to the London metropolis but living here in a beautiful part of the country and draining resources for less economic benefit to the county.
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Far from need ing any further resources depleted in Staffordshire, we feel that we will need FAR more and BETTER resources as things ARE.
In view of the fact there are seldom more than 5 properties available to rent at any one time in the borough of Tamworth, and of them VERY few are fr disabled, any further encroachment will decrease funding and prevent further housing stock and adaptations form being made. I feel strongly that there is insufficient need for the turbines to put where it is suggested and has ANYONE considered the impact on the old buil;dings in the area? Will the vibration travel distances underground, are we likely to see damage to buildings from repeated small shakes caused by these vibrations?
Will these turbines affect the safety of the MINES underground?
Apart from the noise, (which is quite loud) is there a risk of damage from continued minor vibration, which will react to the foundations causing weakness and damage?
Perhaps it would be possible for the pro windfarm lobby to visit SKEGNESS and hear them for themselves? THAT wouldnt be waste of taxpayers money in this instance;- as it will enlighten them to the less publicised problems incurred with these windfarms. I have heard these in action in Wales, and in Skeggy when the wind changed one night, and the sound carried inland. For people living close by them, it will be a permanent problem for their hearing. I can guess some people will be sueing for the damage to property and their health,. Is it worth all this? Cant they be sited somewhere more suitable> Im not being nimby about this. I have got concerns over them.
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