Government announce mad rush to spend money quicker on HS2. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced that the Government plan to introduce a ‘Paving Bill’ for HS2 in the...
WCML franchise fiasco lessons for HS2 Earlier today, the Public Accounts Committee published their report into the cancellation of the West Coast Main Line franchise...
Irresponsible Government to push ahead with high speed rails plans on Monday. Although there has been no ruling yet on five legal challenges against the Government’s proposed HS2 high-speed rail network,...
Train fares rising One of the many assumptions which underlie the HS2 Ltd’s case for a new high speed railway railway is...
West Coast Mainline franchise had same ignored faults as HS2, as Tory group slates plans. Sam Laidlaw, who was put in charge of the investigation into the West Coast Mainline franchise fiasco, has told...
Surprising Claims from the High Speed Rail Policy Forum The High Speed Rail Policy Forum was launched on November 6th. Afterwards, Westbourne Communications made some surprising claims for...
How reliable is the Department for Transport? A preliminary report by Sam Laidlaw published on 29th October into the Department for Transport’s handling of the bidding...
McLoughlin has his fingers in his ears about HS2. In an interview with The Independent, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has said he wants to ‘fast track’...
Public Accounts Committee said Franchising Civil Servant’s HS2 thinking was ‘Bonkers’ & ‘Shocking’. According to the DfT business plan, Steve Gooding the civil servant in charge of HS2 for the...
DfT and HS2 Ltd nominated for ‘analysis of evidence’ award, a day after admitting losing second set of consultation responses. HS2 Ltd and the Department of Transport, whose analysis of evidence was once described by Margaret Hodge,...