‘Scrap pacers’ promise ignores the reality of delay to the process. Today the Chancellor has been keen today to talk up the fact that he wants to create a ‘Northern...
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...
Ahead of the HS2/HS3 announcement On Monday, flanked by David Cameron and George Osborne, Sir David Higgins will attempt to restate the case for...
HS2 Ltd publish additional provisions. Today, HS2 Ltd published the first in a series of amendments to the HS2 Phase 1 plans to...
‘One North’ Report is an admission HS2 won’t regenerate the North. Today, five Northern City Councils (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle) have published the ‘One North’ report in...
“Go forth and regenerate, but there’s no money for it.”, Government tells HS2 cities. The Government have today, Thursday 24th July, have responded to the HS2 Growth Taskforce’s recommendations, which were published in March. In a...
25th July deadline to tell HS2 your preferred contact method Last month, HS2 Ltd emailed people who petitioned against HS2 to Parliament to tell them that they had to set...
McLoughlin announces latest set of made up HS2 figures. Yesterday, the DfT announced that 1500 jobs at HS2 construction headquarters would be sited in Birmingham, stating that a...
Rail projects may not go ahead, as Higgins & Kirby have spent all the money. Whenever Stop HS2 campaigners say the money earmarked for HS2 would be better spent on current infrastructure, the stock...
Birmingham Chamber shoot themselves in the foot on Higgins salary demands This week, Sir David Higgins said he wanted to pay 20-30 people at HS2 Ltd in excess of £140,000...