MPs trash HS2 on environmental grounds The Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has accepted the main recommendation of the Stop HS2 campaign to minimise the environmental...
More money to be thrown at ‘Field of Dreams’ HS2 project. Today, Lord Deighton has published a report from the HS2 Growth Taskforce which admits that HS2 will not deliver...
Higgins set to deliver more false promises with HS2 report on Monday. On Monday, Sir David Higgins is due to launch a report into HS2 called ‘HS2 Plus’, which is intended...
HS2 Ltd fiddle the figures again, ignoring their own forecast by saying electricity prices never go up. Deep within documents buried by HS2 Ltd, Stop HS2 has found that HS2 Ltd have kept the projected running...
MPs rule that HS2 consultation has to be extended, following 877 ‘lost pages’. A committee of MPs has ruled that the current consultation surrounding Phase 1 of the HS2 route must be...
Ministers bid to use ‘war veto’ to keep HS2 documents secret. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin along with Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude have written to David Cameron to demand that...
Cameron looks for Chinese HS2 deal as the public say ‘Stop HS2’ again. The day after a Telegraph/ICM showed that 68% of the public think HS2 should be scrapped, or at least...
HS2 Ltd Community Forums insulting and patronising to blighted communities In a letter sent to Alison Munro, Chief Executive, HS2 Ltd and local MPs whose constituencies border the line,...
All of the companies working on HS2 design are already over budget, by a total of £11m. Building Magazine has uncovered that every company awarded contracts under Lot 1 of the HS2 Professional Services...
Stop HS2: “Government looking desperate” with updated case for HS2 Following the release of a new strategic case for HS2, Stop HS2 Campaign Manager Joe Rukin said; “As we expected,...