DfT come clean and admit HS2 construction hasn’t started, whilst HS2 Ltd prove all they can do is lie. One of the standard tropes currently being used by supporters of HS2 at the moment is to pretend that...
Grayling forgets his original justification for HS2, saying case is ‘as strong as ever’. Chris Grayling has chosen to announce that the Government is fully committed to HS2, just a week after the...
Residents’ Commissioner kept away from the residents Last week, the HS2 Residents’ Commissioner, Deborah Fazan, published her first quarterly report since starting her new role...
The jobs promises of HS2 aren’t working On Tuesday 13th January, Sir David Higgins told the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee that HS2 Ltd are...
HS2 Ltd and the secret office If you were keeping up with the news last week, you might have thought that HS2 Ltd are moving...
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...
New HS2 Ltd boss David Higgins shows he doesn’t have a clue. There has been a long history of proponents of HS2 being willing to say anything to prop up the...
McLoughlin making it up as he goes along Over the last few years, the Stop HS2 campaign has had to contend with proponents saying many things which...
You want to develop The North? Then develop the North! It had been over a decade since I’d been to Salford Quays. Back then I was working for an...
HS2; Joining the dots of airport expansion Joe Rukin writes about HS2 and airport expansion. One of the questions I keep getting asked by people who cannot...