DfT come clean and admit HS2 construction hasn’t started, whilst HS2 Ltd prove all they can do is lie.
One of the standard tropes currently being used by supporters of HS2 at the moment is to pretend that...
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Have You Lost Money Due to HS2? Then it’s Time to Report HS2 Ltd to the Police for Fraud.
Yes, you did read that headline right! Over the years, many people have demonstrated that the case for HS2...
About Quarter of a Billion Pounds of HS2 Spending is Either Missing or “Not Assigned”, as a Decade of Waste is Detailed.
Stop HS2 action groups in Yorkshire have collated a decade of monthly spending reports, in which the Department for...
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...
HS2 Property Cost Forecast at Five Times the Original Estimate, FOI Shows
A Freedom of Information Response from HS2 Ltd forecasts that the final total for the cost of land and...
DfT Admit They Don’t Know How Much Has Been Spent on HS2 Property, as Lawsuit Looms
The Department for Transport has stated that it does not hold any record of how much has been spent...
An Ivory Tower for a White Elephant. How Incompetent were HS2 Ltd to not see this Coming?
Whilst there have been many tales of the profligacy and waste at HS2 Ltd, especially those that focus on...
Boss refuses to reveal ‘cost gap’ of ‘unaffordable’ HS2
Mark Thurston, the boss of HS2 Ltd has refused to admit how far over budget the project is running,...
Secret Government Report says “Fundamentally Flawed” HS2 Could go 60% Over-Budget.
A secret report produced by the Governments’ Infrastructure and Projects Authority months before HS2 got its’ final approval in...
Over half MPs abstain on HS2 vote
Stop HS2 commented following the second reading on the HS2 Phase 2a Bill. Penny Gaines, chair of Stop HS2,...