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HS2 IN MANCHESTER
As a supporter of HS2, the last thing (but one) I want is for its benefits to be exaggerated leading to disappointment, but Chris Stokes (‘Between the Lines’, last month) is unduly pessimistic as to the released capacity effects of HS2 Phase 2b.