HS2 Will be a Disaster, but Politicians Lack the Bottle to Give it the Boot This article was first published in the Huffington Post. Last week, when a group of Conservative...
Please write, following changes at the Department for Transport This morning’s Cabinet reshuffle has means two new ministers in the Department for Transport, replacing Justine Greening and Theresa...
MPs Debate HS2 and Heathrow Originally published on the 51M website: reproduced with permission. Before the summer break MPs debated HS2 and the link...
Unrealistic Passenger Forecasts Can the Department for Transport identify an unrealistic (optimistic) passenger forecast when they see one? Example 1: One of the...
Two years on…. Exactly two years ago today, Lord Adonis, the then Labour Transport minister, announced his Government’s intention to build HS2....
Youtube: Hypocrisy in Action Video by Stop HS2. Theresa Villiers, Norman Baker and Justine Greening – when in opposition – complained about the fiddling...
I Begg to differ – An evening with David Begg. Today, Thursday 26th January 2012, the Transport Times ‘Making HS2 Happen’ event which had originally been scheduled in the...
The rational decision for Justine Greening is to cancel HS2 January 2012 is the month when Justine Greening has said she will make an announcement about the HS2 consultation. She...
Snippets from Westminster Hall debate on High Speed Rail and the north Yesterday there was a Westminster Hall debate, specifically on High Speed Rail and the north. Paul Maynard, who...
Y route – an “informal consultation” There were many flaws with the HS2 consultation which closed a few weeks ago, but at least there was...