Tag: rail
Over the last few weeks, we’ve tried to report on the stances of the Labour Leadership candidates on HS2....
West Coast Mainline not as full as HS2 proponents like to make out.
One of the stock answers for why HS2 is supposedly needed is the ‘fact’ that there is no room...
Two former Chancellors link Network Rail cuts to HS2 spending
In the last week, both Lord (Nigel) Lawson and Alistair Darling, two former Chancellors of the Exchequer have reiterated their opposition to HS2, suggesting the cuts to Network Rail projects are as a direct result of spending on HS2.
We’ve not only put together those clips, but added some from when the pair first came out against HS2.
Besides holding the post of Chancellor, Darling had previously been Secretary of State for Transport, and as such he warned back then that if so much money went on HS2, there wouldn’t be the money for the rest of the rail network.
These words from almost two years ago now seem extremely prophetic, given the recent ‘pausing’ of Network Rail projects.
As Network Rail projects cut, HS2 Ltd report £190m splurge.
As what will surely make the pill of the cancellation of Trans-Pennine and Midland Mainline electrification projects more bitter...
Official Government passenger forecasts destroy the case for HS2.
Whilst the current mantra for Government is that HS2 is needed because to deliver additional capacity on the rail...
‘One North’ Report is an admission HS2 won’t regenerate the North.
Today, five Northern City Councils (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle) have published the ‘One North’ report in...
Bang Goes The HS2 Capacity Theory!
We kept getting told again and again that the railways are full, and HS2 is the only thing which...
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Press Release- LIES AND DAMNED LIES IN CAMPAIGN FOR HSR STATISTICS, DESPITE REGIONAL JOB LOSSES HS2 WILL CAUSE.
On 7th September 2011, the Campaign for HSR announced that “Over three quarters (77%) of small British businesses who...
The Stop HS2 Great White Elephant Hunt, Part One Epilogue.
After hunting the Great White Elephant in 15 towns and cities in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire over three days,...