For responses to transport policy and industry consultations
At the first of our regional seminars held in Glasgow today, we called for substantial investment in rail across Scotland.
Its analysis is that for Britain, three factors – low productivity, over centralisation and the highest levels of transport congestion … Read more › “Setting out a long term rail plan for Scotland”
Unthinking populism has led some to put forward scrapping HS2 as a solution to worrying projections of economic losses from Brexit. ‘Here’s £50bn we could save and spend instead on (say) the NHS’.
But scrapping HS2 does not create a … Read more › “HS2: a magic money tree?”
In our recent report – Beyond HS2 – we set out the most long-term and strategic view of what our national railway network should look like by the middle of the century. The report considers changes to the design of … Read more › “Beyond HS2: a new direction for High-Speed Rail and other services in the UK”
This time (The Guardian, 10th August) Simon Jenkins attacks not only HS2 but also the wider rail network: “Like it or not, roads are the lifeline of the economy”. Yes, but we can’t sustainably expand the road … Read more › “Simon Jenkins on HS2”
