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...
DfT: we can only stretch the HS2 case so far The Department for Transport’s response to the Transport Select Committee report “High Speed Rail: on track?” was published...
HS2: Is Time Running Out This was published yesterday on South Heath against HS2. In yesterday’s Telegraph with the...
HS2 bosses ‘running their own gravy train’ as jobs for the boys merry-go-round nets new chair £750k Simon Kirby will follow Sir David Higgins in joining HS2 Ltd from Network Rail in June, before taking over...
‘More spin and more debt’ is the clear message from new HS2 Chair. On what was surely had been orchestrated to be a set piece ‘good news’ day for HS2 as part...
From the National Infrastructure Plan Ahead of today’s Autumn Budget statement, the Government published the National Infrastructure Plan, 2013. Here is some of what...
All of the companies working on HS2 design are already over budget, by a total of £11m. Building Magazine has uncovered that every company awarded contracts under Lot 1 of the HS2 Professional Services...
New HS2 Ltd boss David Higgins shows he doesn’t have a clue. There has been a long history of proponents of HS2 being willing to say anything to prop up the...
Cameron’s obsession with HS2 is a “Gross Miscalculation” Today at the Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister David Cameron has claimed that a new high speed railway was...
Stop HS2 response to McLoughlin speech Stop HS2 response to McLoughlin speech. Today at Conservative Party Conference, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin claimed that HS2 was essential...