This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Cancel HS2 and use the money to cover the health costs of Covid 19
The Government should cancel HS2 and reallocate the funds to public sector bodies and the NHS who are tackling the health and social care effects of Covid-19.
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I believe that in both economic and environmental terms HS2 is no longer a viable project. As we suffer the ongoing fallout from Covid-19 there is increasingly less justification for a project that will only benefit a small number of people who can afford the ticket price. HS2 has at best only enjoyed lukewarm support amongst a small number of the general public and substantial challenges from the large numbers of people opposed to it. Now, in the post-Covid world, the country's priorities have greatly changed. The Government should acknowledge that we have more pressing concerns, and better ways of spending HS2's £108bn 2020 budget, than saving 30 minutes on the journey from Leeds to London.
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