On Wednesday, HS2 Ltd said that the route of Phase 2b through Yorkshire is still undecided. Here’s how it was reported by Calendar and Look North.
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HS2: Is it worth it?
On Tuesday the ITV Tonight Programme covered the issue of HS2, asking the question ‘Is it worth it?’. Here is the full broadcast:
Yorkshire residents launch HS2 report
On Wednesday, residents impacted by the diversion of the proposed HS2 route around Sheffield published a report on those changes. here’s how it was reported on the day:
HS2 is putting capacity where the growth isn’t
Shelagh Fogarty interviews Richard Houghton of HS2 Action Alliance, LBC Radio, 3rd October 2016.
People in Birmingham don’t want HS2
A YouGov/LBC poll reveals that HS2 is not popular in Birmingam – the only city it’s due to link to London in Phase 1 of the project. These are some of the reports from LBC’s Nick Ferrari breakfast programme.
Separate interiews with other main critics are also on the Stop HS2 Youtube site here.
HS2 will just help London
This week, the Adam Smith Institute were keen to remind the public, in the wake of a survey showing HS2 is considered a waste of money by most people in Birmingham, that all the international evidence shows it would simply suck more stuff to London.
Simon Jenkins on HS2
This week, LBC did a day of special programmes on HS2 to run alongside their survey.
As part of that broadcast, they interviewed former Chair of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins
HS2 Chief Exec jumps ship
£750,000 pa Simon Kirby, the UK’s highest paid civil servant, quits the HS2 White Elephant for Rolls Royce. Stop HS2’s Joe Rukin interviewed by John Gaunt on Talk2Me Radio, 13th September 2016.
HS2 given a massive thumbs down
As Simon Kirby, the £750,000 highest paid civil servant quits HS2 to join Rolls Royce, Mancunian Yvette Fielding thinks there must be “something dodgy going on” to allow HS2 to go ahead. Ainsley Harriot, Matthew Wright and the Wright Stuff audience also unanimously oppose HS2.