I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I took the opportunity to visit the route of High Speed 1 and saw the noise mitigation measures that had been put in place. The noise of the trains is not much more audible than that of an A road or other minor piece of infrastructure.
High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Iain Stewart
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 June 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill.
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