Chris Gibb on the Future of HS2

One of the world’s most expensive railways is being built, but will it actually be useful? The new trains won’t fit into the existing station in Manchester and the railway north of Birmingham has insufficient capacity.

Someone who thinks they know how to fix the mess is Chris Gibb who, amongst many other roles, used to run Virgin West Coast, the very railway that HS2 is designed to replicate.

He describes his plan on this week’s episode.