IN the Guardian edition of February 6, our MP George Osborne compares the HS2 project with the railway through Knutsford and the M6.
The Knutsford line serves both passengers and every useful freight service transporting limestone to the chemical works.
The M6 has easy access to all road vehicles and acts as a by-pass for many towns on its route, providing much-needed new river crossings.
As road logistics were far superior to the freight services provided by rail at the time, it was welcomed as a necessity, with hardly any opposition to it. The HS2 is a luxury in that it takes up large tracks of highly productive countryside to benefit a small number of people for whom it is practical to access this service.
The same people who now have access to air travel at Manchester Airport.
We should be maintaining our present streets, roads and country lanes, which not only have pot holes, but need surface dressing and structural repairs.
This is something they have been deprived of for years.
GW WRIGHT Dobb Lane, Mere
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