In what, 60 years time?This will open the door for those projects, it does seem like a behemoth at the moment, but the benefits will be huge once completed.
I don't doubt there's a lot of benefits to HS2 when viewed as a whole, I do struggle to accept that the time and money couldn't be better spent on other work.
I'm going to leave this thread be at this point, because otherwise I might end up breaching the whatchamacallit that I definitely haven't signed up to.