Difficult for our transport secretary to speak without accusing opponents of HS2 of either lacking vision or of living along the proposed route.
Firstly, there is nothing basically wrong with being concerned about one's own environment. Secondly, most people who want to stop HS2 near their homes also want to stop HS2 completely. . . and thirdly, Mr Hammond, you know full well that there has been no great effort by HS2 or the government to bring this to the attention of the country; a few people along the proposed route found out and, fortunately, made great efforts to bring it to the attention of the rest of us - not surprisingly, the main efforts were made to inform people along the proposed line. When you, Mr Hammond, make comments that it is mainly people along the proposed line complaining, you surely realise that it is both a cheap shot and also that you are responsible for not having informed the population. Many of us (probably most of us) are not as stupid as you would like to think.
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