Health warning for Minister’s extravagant claims for HS2
When former Transport Secretary Philip Hammond launched the HS2 consultation in February 2011, the 21-Nov-2012
HS2 or the best transport?
Patrick McLoughlin’s speech yesterday said he would “crack on” with HS2, on the grounds that:
“… we can’t afford not...
McLoughlin ignores WCML warnings about HS2 and forgets to mention planned £7.7bn service cuts.
After the recent disaster with the West Coast Mainline Franchise, Transport Secretary Patrick McLouglin said today (Monday) he will...
Please write, following changes at the Department for Transport
This morning’s Cabinet reshuffle has means two new ministers in the Department for Transport, replacing Justine Greening and Theresa...
From the Stop HS2 2011 Consultation Response
It’s a year ago tomorrow that the HS2 consultation closed. The consultation was supposed to be the chance to...
Snippets from the House of Lords debate on HS2
Railways: High Speed 2
Question for Short Debate, 11th July 2012
Asked By Viscount Astor
• To ask Her Majesty’s Government...
Optic Fibre for a Virtual Meeting – or HS2?
From “Now Let Us Remove the Blight”.
The HS2 business case uses rail passenger trends from the pre-internet past and...
Days of Steam and a Rich Man’s Toy…
Last year, Philip Hammond, astounded the Transport Select Committee by saying that the railways were a rich man’s...
Why HS2 will turn toxic for Labour
This is a guest article by Deanne DuKhan. Originally published at Liberal Conspiracy.
Looking for a symbol of just...
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...