Tag: Joe Rukin
More Direct Action Against HS2 Promised as Over 1000 Turn Out to Stand for the Trees
Photos and Videos from the Stand for The Trees event, 29th December 2019 at Denham Country Park
“Whitewash HS2 review will be insult to voters intelligence” says #StopHS2 campaign as pre-election direct action spreads
Thirty Days, Four Hundred Miles. Man and Dog complete walk of entire HS2 route
It’s now official, Parliament has been misled over HS2 cost for THREE YEARS.
Press release: All HS2 work must stop until review concludes
Man and dog to complete Birmingham to Leeds HS2 walk
Walking the route, capacity and the Independent
Last Friday, Joe Rukin set off from Curzon Street to walk the north-east route of HS2. We’d kept the plans a bit quiet, in case he got to Day Three and decided he’d done enough. However, if you’ve subscribed to our mailing list, you will have read that he is now past Toton station, and in fact is across the River Trent.
Joe is keeping a video diary of his journey, and uploaded Day Four to our Youtube channel earlier:
In it he talks about capacity, which is once again the current argument for HS2. Whilst Joe talks about why building HS2 will not do much for releasing capacity, the Department for Transport has today announced the franchise winner for the West Coast Main Line, and also announced that there will be another 263 services a week from December 2022. This just proves a decade of arguments from HS2 are essentially hollow.
The other news is that Joe wrote an article for the Independent, which was published on Monday in their Independent Voices section: I have spent a decade fighting HS2, and the arguments to support it keep getting worse.
PS You can keep up with Joe’s progress on Twitter, and also see longer videos on Youtube and facebook.