Problem with HS2? Chuck more money at Crossrail, oh, and maybe time travel too.
Four and a half years after HS2 was announced, the Department for Transport have finally realised that completely demolishing...
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September Petition Hearings – Birmingham
In September, the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee will be hearing petitions from businesses and organisations based in Birmingham. The...
“These mega-projects are the quack remedies of modern politics”
Thursday’s Guardian had an article by Simon Jenkins on the HS3 proposal – High-speed 3? These mega-projects are...
HS2 Petitioning. What happens next?
With 1,925 petitions against the HS2 Phase 1 Hybrid Bill submitted, the Committee who will consider them have a...
Stop HS2’s Petition on the Hybrid Bill
Nearly 2000 petitions against HS2 were deposited at the petition’s office by the deadline last Friday, including approximately 60...
Railway construction at Royal Victoria Dock
Members of Hillingdon Against HS2, requested that HS2 Ltd organise a visit to an actual construction and tunnelling site...
Where’s the extra HS2 annual spend coming from?
Last November, when David Higgins was “tasked with reporting on how to reduce the £42.6 billion cost of...
After four years of HS2, communities must prepare for petitioning.
Four years after the original announcement of HS2, actions groups and communities must reconnect with all the people affected...
Osborne wants to spend more on ‘white elephant’ HS2 station, but who will pay for it?
The Conservative Transport Group has today warned that HS2 terminal stations could become white elephants, and parkway...