Today, the Sunday Telegraph has published… Continue Reading a major news item about the recent Public Accounts Commttee inquiry: we’re really pleased the broadsheets are starting to pick up on this, following several press releases Stop HS2 has issued about it.
Our featured video shows the embarrassment for the Department for Transport when they are forced to reveal that HS2 has been given the poor rating of “AMBER/ RED” by the Major
We’d like to think that the ministers at the Department for Transport read some of the material we send them about high speed rail (we don’t think Justine Greening has, and her Parliamentary Private Secretary Andrew Jones was a vocal supporter of HS2 long before his appointment.)
So it was rather nice on Thursday to find that perhaps Philip Hammond, the former Secretary of State for Transport, has taken some… Continue Reading
While the HS2 focus from much of the press on May the 10th was the spurious idea that the absence of a bill in The Queens Speech was in some way a delay, what was almost completely missed was that HS2 Ltd chose that day to bury the advertisement of top jobs at the quango. Just nine positions were advertised from that day, worth a combined salary in excess of… Continue Reading
This is a guest post by Colin Allen.
The Department for Transport (DfT) say it is ‘not their job’ to consider how the internet will affect their future rail passenger projections in the HS2 business case, which are purely trends from the past projected forwards. So here are the effects of the internet as considered by taxpayers.
In the next twenty years we expect the internet to savagely strip away… Continue Reading
While waiting for the Queen’s speech, here are some interesting blogs and other articles that have appeared on the Stop HS2 radar in the last week or so:
The Sunday Telegraph: Battle plan to avert Tory war… Continue Reading
“…And he [David Cameron] will offer an olive branch to his critics by avoiding Parliamentary legislation on the controversial High Speed 2 rail link and watering down plans to reform the House of