High Speed North Barely Mentions Technology
The National Infrastructure Commission has published its report entitled High Speed North.
Technology and in particular new technology is hardly mentioned in the report.
This is the only mention with respect of improved technology in rail applications.
Ticketing, and in particular the absence of smart ticketing technology.
Design gets a few more mentions, but only one is meaningful.
It is very much a grey report produced by yesterday’s grey men.
The North has serious connectivity problems and it needs them to be solved now!
As I said in Adonis Promises Milk And Honey In The Future, But The North Needs Unblocking Now!, I can’t see much improvement until 2022.
All High Speed North does is confirm my suspicions of yesterday’s grey men conning the country out of fees.
To solve the North’s problems we must break out of the box! And how!
As an example of the report’s lack of ambition, the report says that Manchester Piccadilly station needs to add Platforms 15/16 in Control Period 6 or between 2019 and 2024.
That could be eight years and given the crowding you get on Platforms 13/14, those two extra platforms are needed now.
You need to do a lot better, Lord Adonis. But as a failed New Labour accolyte, we didn’t expect much more.
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