HS2

[Plantaholic]

My journey to the hospital took us past the beautiful countryside which is being devastated by the building of HS2. Houses that have been acquired standing empty, fields on both sides of the road which was lovely woodland and farmland covered with heavy machinery. I am hopeful that some of this will be re-instated when this section is finished. I hope there will be enough passengers who want to travel 200 miles an hour to get from London to the North.

[Daisy]

Plant - sometimes I despair of the human species!

The only consolation is that Nature regenerates herself in some form or other. I was horrified by the brutality of the cut through for the Twyford section of the M3. I know the road was needed, but they should have tunnelled (IMHO), but 25-ish years on the stark white chalk banks are clothed in all sorts of species of plants. I still think a tunnel would have been better, but the current situation is better than I'd feared.

I was going to put a link to some pics, but the internet is shuddering to a halt.

[Oma]

We had the same with our Metro road the A1 making it into 4 lanes absolutely ravaged the fields and trees , now they doing the same a little way along ,
The banks are being taken over by greenery now but they did do a lot of damage before it has started to look a little better

[Gemini]

What a waste that sounds Plant.
As Daisy says, nature does a good job of regenerating.

That 6 foot high fuchsia bush in my mums front garden, hacked to the ground by the crazy man who didn't buy her house - growing back very well now!

[Daisy]

Gem - thank goodness for the fuchsia bush. It was impossible to see that as anything less than vandalism, but now perhaps it will grow better and more beautiful this year.

Plant - these 'scorch and burn' schemes cause so much unhappiness - both to those directly affected and everyone who cares more about nature than getting from A to B a few minutes faster. Many years ago we bought a house from the young widow of a man who had committed suicide because there were plans to demolish the whole road for widening. That road scheme was never built, and a little family lost their daddy.