The Stop HS2 Christmas Message 2019

Seasons greetings from all of us at Stop HS2.

HS2 has never been more likely to be cancelled than it is right now, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over: we’ve got a couple of things you could do in the next few days.

Boris Johnson owes his majority to the fact his party won seats in towns that have been left behind, and HS2 is just more of the same.  Meanwhile lobbyists will be trying to con those new MPs into thinking exactly the opposite.  So, with that in mind, could you write to your MP, telling them you are opposed to HS2 and want them to let the Prime Minister know.

Meanwhile, the review of HS2 is not now expected to report back until February, but the environmental destruction continues. So we really hope you can join us and Chris Packham as we Stand for the Trees in Denham on 29th December.

This is a in interactive 5km walk from Denham rail station (UB9 5ES) at 12.15pm.  But if you just want to do a bit of the walk there are details of where to meet mid route on the Facebook page.

The big deal right now is the fact HS2 was not backed in the Queen’s Speech. This means it’s all very much all up for grabs. With that in mind, our Christmas message to you is below, because make no mistake, the future of HS2 will be decided in the next five weeks or so, and we need you, and we need you now!

To watch on Facebook, click here.

Merry Christmas, Joe & Penny.

 

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Walking the route, capacity and the Independent

Last Friday, Joe Rukin set off from Curzon Street to walk the north-east route of HS2. We’d kept the plans a bit quiet, in case he got to Day Three and decided he’d done enough. However, if you’ve subscribed to our mailing list, you will have read that he is now past Toton station, and in fact is across the River Trent.

Joe is keeping a video diary of his journey, and uploaded Day Four to our Youtube channel earlier:

In it he talks about capacity, which is once again the current argument for HS2. Whilst Joe talks about why building HS2 will not do much for releasing capacity, the Department for Transport has today announced the franchise winner for the West Coast Main Line, and also announced that there will be another 263 services a week from December 2022.  This just proves a decade of arguments from HS2 are essentially hollow.

The other news is that Joe wrote an article for the Independent, which was published on Monday in their Independent Voices section: I have spent a decade fighting HS2, and the arguments to support it keep getting worse.

PS You can keep up with Joe’s progress on Twitter, and also see longer videos on Youtube and facebook.

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