Ouigo off “grands projects”, say French
At the weekend, SNCF, the French railway company, opened two new high speed rail lines, with French president Emmanuel...
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LSE Study: HS2 Will Suck Jobs to London.
Whilst proponents of HS2 have long claimed that the project would somehow ‘rebalance the economy’ geographically, this has flown...
Network Fail: Getting UK Rail Back on Track
Today, the Adam Smith Institute published their latest report “Network Fail: Getting UK Rail Back on Track”.
While much...
£0 valuation leads Mayor to call HS2 compensation ‘miserly’
Earlier this week, the Evening Standard reported that a house in London had been given a £0 valuation in...
From the Archives: Holograms or virtual reality rooms?
This was originally published in July 2013:
, Labour’s new business ambassador hit the headlines by 17-Aug-2015
French disillusionment with high speed rail
The latest French inquiry into two proposed new high speed rail lines is highly critical of them, using objections...
HS2 Project And IMF Warning
This was originally published on South Heath against HS2.
A report by the International Monetary Fund casts doubt on...
For HS2 playing the Europe card has become a busted flush
From 51M.
When all else fails, HS2 advocates play the Europe card. Patrick McLoughlin did it recently when talking about...
Case for HS2 has not been made, says Economic Affairs Committee.
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, chaired by Lord Hollick has today published their report “The...
‘Catch up with Europe’??? It’s not somewhere we want to go!
Madeleine Wahlberg writes about the Court of Auditors report released in France last week:
There has been a flurry of...