Scary Prospect of house building – or house prices up In last week’s Sunday Times, David Higgins claimed that if HS2 was not built, then there would have...
‘Catch up with Europe’??? It’s not somewhere we want to go! Madeleine Wahlberg writes about the Court of Auditors report released in France last week: There has been a flurry of...
National Audit Office: ‘lack of common sense’ and ‘unrealistic analysis’ overstated HS2 business case by 86% The Government previosuly overstated the benefits of the proposed HS2 rail line by 86%, a report from...
HS3: No plan, no route, no budget, no timescale. Yesterday, a couple of months after George Osborne said he wanted to ‘start a conversation’ about HS3, he, along...
HS3 proposal a tacit acknowledgement that HS2 will be a failure Monday, 27th October 2014: Campaigners today said that the so-called HS3 Northern Powerhouse proposals were a tacit acknowledgement that...
Polling shows HS2 more unpopular than ever on eve of another relaunch. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times shows that HS2 is more unpopular amongst voters than ever,...
Ahead of the HS2/HS3 announcement On Monday, flanked by David Cameron and George Osborne, Sir David Higgins will attempt to restate the case for...
Preparing the ground for Monday As you may know, Sir David Higgins will be making his announcement about HS2 Phase 2, and may well...
From the archives: Will Stoke get a HS2 station This article from our archives was originally published in June 2011. See also today’s 24-Oct-2014 News PMQs: Cameron makes out ‘Devo Met’ Northern Powerhouse report supports HS2, when it doesn’t. Yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions, David Cameron praised a report from the Royal Society’s City Growth Commission, which as...
PMQs: Cameron makes out ‘Devo Met’ Northern Powerhouse report supports HS2, when it doesn’t. Yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions, David Cameron praised a report from the Royal Society’s City Growth Commission, which as...