Let the Train Provide the Strain?

A report confirms that HS2 (the provision of a fast line to connect train services in London to Northern English cities) will, not only cost a good deal more than was initially planned, but will have a major detrimental impact on the environment (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/15/hs2-will-destroy-or-damage-hundreds-of-uk-wildlife-sites-report). It will reportedly destroy many wildlife sites with experts simply not accepting that 'remedial' plans (e.g. replacing a cut down tree with one elsewhere) actually achieve anything that is meaningful. There is no doubt that taking a train is better than flying but there must be ways of achieving necessary travel in a better way.