I have been listening to the news on the radio recently about the high speed rail link between London & Birmingham. Once constructed, this new line will enable folks to travel from London to Birmingham in only 40 minutes. I expect that it will also be possible to get from Birmingham to London in a similar amount of time.
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to travel so quickly between these two cities. I've been to London and I've been to Birmingham and, while they are both fine places, I can't help but think: "What's the rush?"
Eventually the plan is to cover the entire country with these high speed railway lines; but the way things are going these days there won't really be anywhere worth going to see - especially at high speed.
I think the ultimate plan is to make the whole island so dour and overcrowded that people will simply abandon the desire to travel anywhere else in Britain at all. This will free up spaces in the already overcrowded & overpriced trains.
Hopefully, I am completely wrong.
On December the 16th, 1912 the Bristol Hippodrome theatre opened its doors for the very first time. As it is such a dearly loved venue I wonder how the people currently owning the theatre plan to celebrate this truly momentous occasion at the latter end of this year?
Let's hope that they do it justice.
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