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...
Only one person thinks HS2 compensation is adequate, says official consultation analysis. Whilst the Department for Transport has justified its decision not to revise HS2 compensation proposals because there was ‘no...
MPs to debate referendum on HS2. With text to send to your MP today Sample text to send to your MP today appears at the bottom. On Friday (23rd January), MPs will debate a...
Budgets for the next Government Back in 2013, the HS2 Paving Act was put before Parliament to allow the Department for Transport to...
Official Government passenger forecasts destroy the case for HS2. Whilst the current mantra for Government is that HS2 is needed because to deliver additional capacity on the rail...
Ed Balls statement puts Labour commitment to HS2 under threat. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls MP, a long-time critic of HS2 has again raised the question of whether or not...
Report based on ‘Anecdotes, hearsay and conjecture’ concludes HS2 is a good thing. Today the ‘Independent’ Transport Commission, who list the instigator of the HS2 project Lord Adonis as a patron, have...
National Audit Office: ‘lack of common sense’ and ‘unrealistic analysis’ overstated HS2 business case by 86% The Government previosuly overstated the benefits of the proposed HS2 rail line by 86%, a report from...
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...
HS1’s Economic Effects on Kent still unassessed In a recent set of Transport questions, then Transport Minister Stephen Hammond admitted that the government had still not...