A win on HS2 for farmers, as HS2 Ltd continue to try and buy off petitioners. Following evidence given to the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee by Stop HS2, the committee have told HS2 Ltd to...
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...
‘Compensation Week’ at HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee This week, the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee have decided to focus on compensation. With the Country Land and Business...
HS2 Ltd admit – Euston rebuild ‘not a fundable solution’ with ‘no business case’ Following publication of minutes of an emergency meeting of the HS2 Euston Strategic Board, it has been revealed...
Assurances from HS2 Ltd: More unhelpful things from the blogosphere. On 20th October, the issue of the difference between assurances and undertakings came up at the HS2 Hybrid Bill...
HS2 back at the Public Accounts Committee Yesterday, HS2 Ltd were back in front of the Public Accounts Committee, who wanted to see them following a...
McLoughlin safeguarding statement is “either lying or knowingly throwing away taxpayers money”. In a cart-before-the-horse move typical of HS2 Ltd, Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin has claimed the proposed...
HS3: No plan, no route, no budget, no timescale. Yesterday, a couple of months after George Osborne said he wanted to ‘start a conversation’ about HS3, he, along...
Polling shows HS2 more unpopular than ever on eve of another relaunch. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times shows that HS2 is more unpopular amongst voters than ever,...
HS2 costs increase by over £1bn, but not according to HS2 Ltd. The costs associated with Phase 1 contracts of HS2 have increased by £1.15bn, an increase of 11% since November...