HS3: Still no plan, no route and no timescale, but a £65bn budget. As expected, proposals for HS3 which have been announced today, seem to have taken the most-cost options, with the...
Budget promise on HS3 will be taking the highest cost option for another white elephant. As reported in The Independent on Sunday, Chancellor George Osborne intends to put more meat on the...
HS2 Ltd admit they will scrap all current long distance trains to Euston in £8.3bn rail cut. After years of speculation, HS2 Ltd technical Director Andrew McNaughton has finally admitted that towns and cities in the...
HS3: No plan, no route, no budget, no timescale. Yesterday, a couple of months after George Osborne said he wanted to ‘start a conversation’ about HS3, he, along...
Ahead of the HS2/HS3 announcement On Monday, flanked by David Cameron and George Osborne, Sir David Higgins will attempt to restate the case for...
Preparing the ground for Monday As you may know, Sir David Higgins will be making his announcement about HS2 Phase 2, and may well...
PMQs: Cameron makes out ‘Devo Met’ Northern Powerhouse report supports HS2, when it doesn’t. Yesterday at Prime Ministers Questions, David Cameron praised a report from the Royal Society’s City Growth Commission, which as...
Got a question on HS2? Don’t go to a fringe, come to the Stop HS2 stall. Without doubt, for anyone at Labour Party Conference in Manchester who actually has a question about HS2 and actually...
Helen Jones, MP, at the Warrington HS2 debate From speech given by Helen Jones, MP for Warrington North at the debate...