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...
HS2 timetable slipping behind The two extensions to the Environmental Statement consultation have not just given people more time to respond to it,...
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...
Barnett costs mean billions more will have to go on the HS2 bill. Following the discovery last week that HS2 Ltd had decided to keep the estimated running costs of the project...
HS2 Ltd fiddle the figures again, ignoring their own forecast by saying electricity prices never go up. Deep within documents buried by HS2 Ltd, Stop HS2 has found that HS2 Ltd have kept the projected running...
Use of ‘War Veto’ to block publication of HS2 reports is illegal, say Stop HS2. Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin has today exercised a veto on publication of a report pertaining to...
HS2 media management tries to hide extra consultation extension under legal ruling HS2 Ltd have chosen to say they will comply will a ruling from the House of Lords Standing Orders...
Supreme Court rules that “all aspects of the HS2 project remain open to debate” The Supreme Court today (22nd Jan 2014) rejected anti-HS2 campaigners’ appeal that the Government should comply with the Strategic...
Lords demand HS2 consultation should be extended for second time in week, with 27th Feb deadline. The House of Lords Standing Orders Committee has ruled that the HS2 Phase 1 Environmental Statement Consultation should be...
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...