I'm not sure if this makes it better or worse for us in the U.K., but we're not alone in having a right wing government cancelling plans for high speed rail upgrades in favour of cars. Sweden have been going through the exact same thing recently. It's so close to what Sunak is doing that it looks like he's just ripped off their ideas.
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/economy-and-ecology/swedens-climate-policy-is-off-the-rails-7029/
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