On Friday, 17 March 2017 13:08:50 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 17 March 2017 12:02:28 UTC, bert wrote:
In article , Jethro_uk
writes
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:35:03 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


Such a future does bring into question the entire purpose of railways, of
course. Which is why - especially given it's glacial timescale - HS2
seems like an absolute waste of money.

In terms of mass transit there is no way cars, driverless or otherwise,
can replace trains. HS2 is an essential project to upgrade capacity on
the west coast main line.

and there's no way trains will, replace trains, you want to get somewhere quick take a plane not a train, it'll be cheaper too.

Should have been "and there's no way trains will, replace planes,"