From the Archives: What’s wrong with HS2
Originally published November 2013:
High Speed 2 will cost £50bn, including the trains. But it is an environmentally damaging...
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Rail Rip off and HS2
According to new analysis by the Action for Rail, rail fares have risen at double the speed of wages...
HS2’s tentative survey
HS2 Ltd have recently set up an on-line survey for residents near the railway line which they claim...
Looking like a train crash….
The HS2 project has often been referred to with unflattering comparisons: notable examples include The Telegraph calling it a...
Knowing a hawk from a handsaw
Originally published on HS2 and the Environment.
A couple of weeks ago I received a telephone call from BBC...
Labour mayor candidates, Burham and Rotheram on HS2
In the list of HS2 cheerleaders, certain people in Manchester and Liverpool come high up the list.
Sir Richard Leese,...
HS2 publish minor changes made as a result of petitioning
HS2 Ltd have published details of changes to the route of Phase 1 which have been made as a...
New Government are reviewing all projects
Whitehall sources have revealed that the new government are currently reviewing all projects, as a result of David Camerons...
HS3 more important for the North than HS2
The Institute of Public Policy Research has become the latest body to say that HS3, providing better rail links...
Urgent funding appeal.
This is a joint appeal on behalf of AGHAST and Stop HS2.
The recent change in Government has presented us...