Welcome JUNE 2013 ISSUE 193 £3.95 THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR RAIL
Seeking a balance
Alison Munro, Chief Executive of HS2 Ltd on alternative proposals, lessons from overseas and women in rail
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observe is that high speed rail provides an opportunity, it doesn’t necessarily deliver the silver bullet on its own, and places that have been successful in using high speed rail to regenerate and to lead development have had strong supporting policies to ensure those benefits are realised.’ Isn’t it about time we started to hear more about those policies and plans? Not only because they are
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truly relevant but because they might assist the PR around this huge and contentious project. Interestingly, as Rail Professional was just about to go to press, the National Audit Office ‘expressed reservations’ about the DfT’s business case for HS2, a move that the DfT has dismissed saying the conclusions are based on ‘old data’. But the report is getting nearer to the crux of the matter. In particular, says the NAO, ‘in presenting its case for investment in the project, the Department is said to have poorly articulated the strategic need for a transformation in rail capacity and how HS2 will help generate regional economic growth.’ A recent feature on the BBC’s news website, looking at the impact of high speed rail in Spain,
quoted John Tomaney, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College London, who was commissioned by the Commons Public Accounts Committee to write a report on HS2. His comments were damning: ‘If we look at evidence from economic analysis and experience from around the world, it’s very difficult to prove a link between building high speed rail lines and closing regional inequalities.’ In fact, he said, ‘the opposite is the case and there is some evidence that high speed entrenches the dominance of already rich cities.’ Whatever the case, ATOC’s report that Toc’s use of airline-style discounting is helping to increase rail’s share of the domestic travel market is encouraging; on the ten most popular domestic air routes in Britain, rail’s share grew to 46 per cent last year, up from 29 per cent in 2006. HS2 will also need, as The Campaign for Better Transport says, to be part of an overall national transport strategy, with stations linked to the rest of the transport network in the right places. Railtex was a great success this year, but where were the women? When Alison Munro was at the DfT she was the only female among a couple of hundred men, and she talks about her belief that women are a great untapped resource that the industry ought to be making the most of. As she said, senior women in the industry - and I congratulate Clare Hollingsworth on her appointment as the new chairman of Eurostar - have a ‘really important part to play as mentors’, and the message needs to really get out there.
Lorna Slade, Editor
midst all the political, legal and environmental ups and downs of the HS2 project, the core of the matter was mentioned by Alison Munro, chief executive of HS2 in the Rail Professional interview (page 28): one key lesson that HS2 has learned in studying overseas high speed is that bringing cities closer together by reducing travelling times is only part of the benefits equation. As Munro explained: ‘One of the things we
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