Green Party’s High Speed Rail Briefing Note High Speed Rail Briefing Note GPEW Conference, Cardiff, 26th February 2011 John Whitelegg (Professor of Sustainable Transport and Lancaster City Councillor)...
Our response to Philip Hammond’s letter to MP’s In the interests of open debate, a few days ago we put onto the website the text of the...
If all you’ve got is a hammer… It was not hard to miss the announcement yesterday that the rail usage is at its peace-time highest...
Jobs tomorrow – but not today A Birmingham paper has picked up on the possibility of a HS2 depot in the Washwood Heath of...
Special offer for British Taxpayers – High Speed 2 only £34 billion! According to a highly critical report prepared by Wendover HS2 Action Group, HS2 Ltd, the Government-owned company...
Who talks to who, in the Department for Transport? It’s quite common, when talking to the general public, to find that they make assumptions about HS2’s green credentials. However,...
Examining HS2’s Passenger Forecasts Richard Lloyd, from the Heart of England High Speed Railway Action Group recently had the following graph published in...
“High Speed Rail is going ahead” says the Lib Dem Travel Minister As we’ve mentioned before, Norman Baker, the LibDem travel minister, has a remit for “non-travel”. The aim of this...
Looking Ahead in 2011 2011 promises to be a busy year for campaigners against HS2. In the first half of the year, the...
The Great Train Robbery Continues Ever since HS2 was proposed, STOP HS2 has pointed out that existing rail users would suffer as a result. Low...