‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2

from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian

Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line By Patrick Barkham. Read by Dermot Daly. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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