Debts and subsidies for High Speed Rail by Andrew Bodman The ongoing costs of running a high speed rail system are sometimes overlooked or underestimated. In July...
Greening resorts to ‘HS2 might look nice’ as all other arguments collapse. At a speed typical of the delays with the HS2 proposal, Justine Greening has taken over a week before...
HS2: NAO report disproves government rhetoric A longer version of this was published on the Information Daily (formerly eGov monitor) last month. The main headline...
Who loses out with HS2 A small number of major cities (Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds) get significant medium term (2026/2033) benefits from HS2. But many...
Some recent news stories Some recent news stories about HS2. Camden New Journal: HS2 – What about families, Mr Cameron? Labour councillor Adam...
PAC looking into HS1 sale Today, the Public Accounts Committee will be hearing oral evidence on the sale of HS1. Witnesses include Mike Fuhr,...
Government admit value for money of building HS2 was inflated. For the fourth time since initial plans published in March 2010, the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) for HS2 has been...
ARUP met Cameron at No. 10 before winning three more HS2 contracts worth £22m ARUP, the only firm which David Cameron mentioned in his infrastructure speech on 19th March, had a series of...
HS2 failure will dwarf that of HS1, say Stop HS2 campaign group. The National Audit Office has produced their long-awaited report into HS1, which has highlighted; Passenger numbers have fallen...
Campaigners Shocked as HS2 Chief Engineer reveals ‘new city’ secret agenda. Professor Andrew McNaughton, the Chief Engineer for the highly controversial HS2 project, has revealed in a speech in Derby...