Former Transport Minister Calls on Grayling to Scrap “Budget Busting HS2”
Three former Government Ministers have heaped pressure on the under-fire HS2 project in the House of Commons today (14th...
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Highlights of Terry Morgan at Lords Economic Affairs Committee
A fortnight ago, former chair of HS2 Ltd Sir Terry Morgan, admitted that ‘nobody knows’ what HS2 will end up costing, and as part of preparing the ground for either descoping or another cost increase, he warned that ‘something has to give. Here are the highlights.
In a Desperate Attempt to Cut Costs, HS2 Seriously Consider Cutting Fundamental Principle of HS2
In days gone by Secretaries of State for Transport such as Philip Hammond, Patrick McLoughlin and Chris Grayling justified...
Rail fares up again
Chris Grayling has spent the day wandering the TV studios trying to defend today’s 3.1% rail price rise. He’s...
Behind the Brexit Firewall, HS2 has been Trundling on at Panic Stations with Increased Costs, Incompetence, Spin and Fraud.
With the Brexit Firewall incinerating almost everything else that has the audacity to try and become news, you might...
People “only have to look at Crossrail” to see if HS2 will be on time and on budget.
In July 2017 Chris Grayling delivered an update on HS2 to Parliament in which he confirmed route changes on...
Morgan “Sacked by Mutual Consent” as Chair of HS2 – and Crossrail
After it was first reported last Friday that HS2 Ltd chair Sir Terry Morgan was going to be sacked,...
HS2 Ltd bury the bad news of under-reporting cost comparisons.
Last month, in what seemed like a bizarre level of honesty, when Jim Pickard at the Financial Times asked...
HS2 Ltd construction programme is “Wrong and Misleading”, says HS2 Ltd.
In response to a report in the Sunday Telegraph that HS2 is running around 3 years behind the construction...
HS2 Ltd begin cynical corporate greenwashing exercise on a smallholding they made uneconomical to farm, in the area of most habitat loss.
Today, HS2 Ltd have cynically announced that the sporadic woodland planting which is taking place along the route of...