Selling HS2 by the pound 51M looks at the enormous costs of HS2: It is interesting to look back on a speech given by...
74% spike in rail construction wages will add billions to HS2 bill. According to the No Palaver Group, rail construction workers now have the highest average weekly pay in the construction...
John Redwood asks ‘Where has all the money gone?’ Today, John Redwood asks “HS2 – Where has all the money gone?”. He points out that “In the two...
Osborne wants to spend more on ‘white elephant’ HS2 station, but who will pay for it? The Conservative Transport Group has today warned that HS2 terminal stations could become white elephants, and parkway...
From the Archives: Hammond HS2 “significantly below” £33bn This was originally published in June 2011, called Hammond questions...
UPDATED – HS2 costs jump by £10bn, almost wiping out Spending Review savings in one hit. Introducing his ‘Blank Cheque’ Paving Bill for HS2, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced an amazing £9.9bn increase in...
Are infrastructure projects good for the economy? Bent Flyvbjerg who works at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, wrote a paper entitled: “Survival of the unfittest:...