Hs2; A "living Nightmare" Or "not In My Backyard"?

[Khandro]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9833353/Cheryl-Gillan-HS2-is-a-living-nightmare.html

[jno]

do the people opposing this use the motorways, railway lines or airports that are in other people's backyards? If so, they're Nimbys.

[Zeuhl]

/the motorways, railway lines or airports that are in other people's backyards?/

although presumably, as most of those have been there a long time, most of the people who have them in their backyards moved next to them of their own volition.

[kylesmum]

I wonder what Stephenson would make of this debate?

Would he recognise his invention?

[jno]

not necessarily, Zeuhl - use Heathrow in the last few years and you've helped to destroy Sipson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/16/sipson-heathrow-baa-homes-protest

Harmondsworth may be next to go.