Packed meeting about HS2 tunnelling

4:40pm Tuesday 18th September 2012 in News

MORE than 150 people crammed into a village hall on Sunday to listen to a member of the Chilterns Conservation Board speak on what it says is the only acceptable solution if HS2 goes ahead.

Ray Payne from the public body spoke at the Great Missenden Memorial Hall and said the CCB remain opposed to HS2 because it believes it is not in the national interest.

But he said if the Government continue to push it forward the railway line should take the shortest possible route through the Chilterns AONB and be fully tunnelled.

All at the meeting were in agreement with the CCB’s position that if this scheme proceeds a fully bored tunnel is the only acceptable solution.

More to come.

Comments (10)

6:05pm Tue 18 Sep 12

motco says...

Would it be inaudible on the surface if it were to be tunnelled?
Would it be inaudible on the surface if it were to be tunnelled? motco

9:06pm Tue 18 Sep 12

rich61 says...

Same people moaning about the cost of HS2 want to try and think of ways to make it more expensive, i.e tunnelling. More idiocy from the anti-HS2 camp. (All 150 of them).
Same people moaning about the cost of HS2 want to try and think of ways to make it more expensive, i.e tunnelling. More idiocy from the anti-HS2 camp. (All 150 of them). rich61

8:42am Wed 19 Sep 12

Flackwell says...

Perhaps you can tell us how profitable HS1 has been ?
Perhaps you can tell us how profitable HS1 has been ? Flackwell

12:27pm Wed 19 Sep 12

I Love Ivor says...

Flackwell wrote:
Perhaps you can tell us how profitable HS1 has been ?
It hasn't!
[quote][p][bold]Flackwell[/bold] wrote: Perhaps you can tell us how profitable HS1 has been ?[/p][/quote]It hasn't! I Love Ivor

4:33pm Wed 19 Sep 12

morris1234a says...

wow 150 that many, did you have to pull them off the street. Why should we pay all they are doing is moaning and they should just shut up and get on with life. HS2 is going to be built.
wow 150 that many, did you have to pull them off the street. Why should we pay all they are doing is moaning and they should just shut up and get on with life. HS2 is going to be built. morris1234a

7:49pm Wed 19 Sep 12

JohnWebber says...

I'm sure we all love Ivor, but just how "profitable" is the road outside your front door. the water main or the sewer connected to your house?
Likewise, HS1 is a service, an amenity, a utility, offering a wider choice of travel both international and domestic.Have you sampled a visit to the Turner gallery at Margate- or sat on the beach to watch the sunset?
I'm sure we all love Ivor, but just how "profitable" is the road outside your front door. the water main or the sewer connected to your house? Likewise, HS1 is a service, an amenity, a utility, offering a wider choice of travel both international and domestic.Have you sampled a visit to the Turner gallery at Margate- or sat on the beach to watch the sunset? JohnWebber

6:55am Thu 20 Sep 12

demoness the second says...

JohnWebber wrote:
I'm sure we all love Ivor, but just how "profitable" is the road outside your front door. the water main or the sewer connected to your house?
Likewise, HS1 is a service, an amenity, a utility, offering a wider choice of travel both international and domestic.Have you sampled a visit to the Turner gallery at Margate- or sat on the beach to watch the sunset?
Maybe I love Ivor would rather be ecologically friendly and watch a sunset over the Chiltern Hills in peace and quiet. Perhaps he or she would rather have a walk through the ancient woodlands in the Chilterns.
Oh wait.. Durrrr!! That won't be possible if people like you have their way will it?

Still its all part of the service.
And having been to Margate, it is not an experience I would want to have again :)))
[quote][p][bold]JohnWebber[/bold] wrote: I'm sure we all love Ivor, but just how "profitable" is the road outside your front door. the water main or the sewer connected to your house? Likewise, HS1 is a service, an amenity, a utility, offering a wider choice of travel both international and domestic.Have you sampled a visit to the Turner gallery at Margate- or sat on the beach to watch the sunset?[/p][/quote]Maybe I love Ivor would rather be ecologically friendly and watch a sunset over the Chiltern Hills in peace and quiet. Perhaps he or she would rather have a walk through the ancient woodlands in the Chilterns. Oh wait.. Durrrr!! That won't be possible if people like you have their way will it? Still its all part of the service. And having been to Margate, it is not an experience I would want to have again :))) demoness the second

10:57pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Chiltonians says...

The environmental case for the planned high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham has received a boost after a report yesterday found it could yield "significant" emissions reductions for the UK - as long as it is accompanied by a set of bold policy initiatives.
The study commissioned by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), RSPB and the Campaign for Better Transport says the £32bn High-Speed Rail 2 (HS2) scheme can help the country meet its target of reducing emissions 80 per cent on 1990 levels by the middle of the century.

HS2 - great environmental case
The environmental case for the planned high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham has received a boost after a report yesterday found it could yield "significant" emissions reductions for the UK - as long as it is accompanied by a set of bold policy initiatives. The study commissioned by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), RSPB and the Campaign for Better Transport says the £32bn High-Speed Rail 2 (HS2) scheme can help the country meet its target of reducing emissions 80 per cent on 1990 levels by the middle of the century. HS2 - great environmental case Chiltonians

3:23pm Sun 23 Sep 12

Chiltonians says...

Exactly how long have the Chilterns Conservation Board people had any engineering experience?

What gives them the ability to even enter discussions about tunnelling let along hold a meeting??

What exactly do the CCB do anyway???

Last time they moaned about the impacts of tunnelling on the aquifer. Then they moaned about the amount of waste spoil that would have to be taken away.

Now they moan at HS2 for solving all those issues and want more tunnelling to cause yet ore of the impacts they moaned about in the
first place!

Out of the whole Chilterns only 150 people turned up???? Must have been football on the telly - or something more important going on?
Exactly how long have the Chilterns Conservation Board people had any engineering experience? What gives them the ability to even enter discussions about tunnelling let along hold a meeting?? What exactly do the CCB do anyway??? Last time they moaned about the impacts of tunnelling on the aquifer. Then they moaned about the amount of waste spoil that would have to be taken away. Now they moan at HS2 for solving all those issues and want more tunnelling to cause yet ore of the impacts they moaned about in the first place! Out of the whole Chilterns only 150 people turned up???? Must have been football on the telly - or something more important going on? Chiltonians

3:26pm Sun 23 Sep 12

Chiltonians says...

Of course "all at the meeting were in agreement with the idea that a fully bored tunnel is their only acceptable solution"!!!

That's why they went to the meeting!!!

Which nimby wrote this rubbish?
Of course "all at the meeting were in agreement with the idea that a fully bored tunnel is their only acceptable solution"!!! That's why they went to the meeting!!! Which nimby wrote this rubbish? Chiltonians

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