I READ with interest the two articles about the Warburton HS2 Action Group.

Significant infrastructure schemes, like HS2, will always have an adverse effect on some areas and I can sympathise with those affected.

But if we accepted local loss as a valid reason to oppose a scheme no new roads, railways or airports will ever get built.

Instead, the route should be quickly confirmed and those affected promptly and adequately compensated.

I consider myself an ‘ordinary person of Greater Manchester’ and I do not see this scheme ‘bringing only destruction’.

It will bring two hours less travelling per round trip to London.

If you travel on the mid-Cheshire Rail line, additional rush hour trains have to terminate and start from Stockport because there is not enough capacity across Stockport viaduct; that will become a thing of the past.

We will get easy links to Europe by train; Paris or Brussels in three hours, Amsterdam or Cologne in four hours.

No long airport check-ins just wheel your bags onto the train and relax, meaning fewer of the noisy and polluting internal flights to London from Manchester.

If as the group suggests the line will “…suck money, jobs and people to London” shouldn’t we consider the opposite, if we dig up the existing rail lines to London and the M6 can we expect that to bring prosperity to Trafford?

I think not, it is a false argument.

Trafford should welcome this scheme and ensure local transport is improved to make sure the new Airport Station is easily reached by all its residents.

I can understand that there will be some upset people who are directly affected (including my daughter) but the UK gains massively from this scheme.

When built we can finally say we’ve joined the 21st century, the rest of Europe started to do it last century.

Michael Battman, Timperley