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It seems to be a case of drawing a straight line across a map, ignoring possible gradients and hoping to get planning permission.

Hm? Do you mean the straight line in the Channel 4 article? But you'll find the detailed route maps here. It's very detailed, they even bothered with vertical curvature radius. You also find the different route options studied in chapters 5-7 of the report.

no plan to connect it with HS1

It's in the above linked part of the report, Chapter 9. Three options are investigated. It ends with:

The capital cost of the options for connecting to HS1 are presented below.

  • Option 1 = £457,730,400
  • Option 2 = £812,165,920
  • Option 3 = £3,595,290,000


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 06:21:40 PM EST
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That's what you get for taking the word of one of the headbanger Tory dailies. [sigh...]
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 10:28:02 PM EST
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