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,...
Stopping HS2 is still the only option, says national campaigning body. While there has been a lot of speculation in the last week over routes for HS2, both for the...
Local Campaigners Meet Transport Secretary A group of local campaigners against the proposed high-speed railway between London and the West Midlands (HS2) have been...
More delays for HS2 as ‘cracking on’ becomes ‘cracking up’, but no—one tells HS2 Ltd. Today (December 5th 2012), Chancellor George Osborne announced as part of his Autumn Statement that; “We’ve already set out...
West Coast Mainline & HS2 – the truth will out, albeit slowly. Yesterday, Transport Secretary Patrick McLouhglin and chief DfT civil servant Philip Rutnam appeared before the Transport Select Committee, trying...
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’...
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...
HS2 already costing £13m per month, as Stage 2 delayed until after legal hearings. An army of consultants and new staff has seen the costs of the HS2 project almost treble from £4.7m...
Stop HS2 cautiously welcome Patrick McLoughlin as new Transport Secretary. The revolving door at the Department for Transport has swung today and delivered the eighth Transport Secretary in eight...
As Greening ordered to explain growing HS2 consultation errors in court, HS2 chief says methodology was inadequate. With the date of the five Judicial Reviews into HS2 now set to start on 3rd December, Transport Secretary...