Some Recent News Items Telegraph: Officials in charge of HS2 have already spent £300m The full extent of a multimillion-pound spending spree embarked upon...
‘More spin and more debt’ is the clear message from new HS2 Chair. On what was surely had been orchestrated to be a set piece ‘good news’ day for HS2 as part...
HS2 Ltd blow £302m on contractors, splurging £170m in just 10 months. A study, undertaken by the Tax Payers Alliance, of payments from HS2 Ltd made to external agencies...
HS2 only directly covers 13 out of 465 trips between English city regions Backbench MPs not impressed with HS2 Tags: News… Continue Reading
Setting out the stall (part 1) This is Peter’s account of a presentation he gave to the Coventry and Warwickshire network of the Institution of...
Snippets from the Inter-City Rail Investment debate Debate on Thursday 9th January 2014: from Hansard. Inter-City Rail Investment Ian Swales (Redcar) (LD): I beg to move: That...
Even the Department for Transport know their KPMG report is flawed. As reported by The Sunday Telegraph, the report which the DfT paid KPMG a quarter of a...
HS2’s Diminishing Modal Shift With every economic case, the modal shift has dropped. With the latest revision, only 5% of passengers are expected...
From the Archives: Prepare your Ark This was originally published in 2010, but the risks to flood plains from HS2 remain. It’s by Stop...