Luddites

At last, after a two year consultation, the HS2 rail link has been approved pending a bill being officially passed in the Parliament.
As someone who lives on the route I have been surrounded for these two years by letters to the newspapers, campaigners, leaflets through the door all opposing this progress.
These are the same people who have four mobile phones in their household but object to having a mast near to them even though it is proven that smaller masts are less harmful so a small mast on each street corner would be the safest option.
These are the type of people who would have opposed the telephone or electricty as they saw them as unnecessary and useless.
These are possibly the descendants of those that objected to the first railways nearly two hundred years ago that dramatically opened up this country to commerce and leisure.
This new HS2 route is not merely about slashing ten minutes off a journey to London but allowing commuters and travellers to be able to get a seat on a service that currently only has cramped standing room available for the first hour of the journey if you travel anywhere near peak times. It is about opening up access to the North of the country allowing businesses to take advantage of lower rents and rates and bring jobs to other parts of the country rather than just the South East.
So come on moaners, stop trying to curb progress in England.  I am heartily sick of being looked down on by our European cousins because of our Victoriam built rail system that cannot be run efficiently because it has reached capacity and is crumbling away.