{"id":52895,"date":"2026-05-19T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-a-full-hs2-line-could-still-be-built\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:06:44","slug":"why-a-full-hs2-line-could-still-be-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-a-full-hs2-line-could-still-be-built\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a full HS2 line could still be built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">A Y junction was the original shape of the line as envisaged in the first plans for a line from London to Birmingham that branched to Manchester and Leeds. The purpose of the original plan was practical \u2014 capacity and speed, but also strategic. The UK is a long, thin country that excels in the service sector, and connecting these sources of growth would lever in investment and create agglomeration effects that would help rebalance Britain&#8217;s lopsided economy,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgzrle9441o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Y junction was the original shape of the line as envisaged in the first plans for a line from London to Birmingham that branched to Manchester and Leeds. The purpose of the original plan was practical \u2014 capacity and speed, but also strategic. The UK is a long, thin country that excels in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1135,5029,487,3584],"class_list":["post-52895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","tag-built","tag-full","tag-hs2","tag-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52897,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52895\/revisions\/52897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}