The 15-year consensus on creating HS2 has been shattered. The fall-out causes all kinds of problems, in particular for the Midlands and North.
HS2 was not just a new railway, but an opportunity to get better value out of the … Read more › “HS2 curtailed: the regional fall-out”
The political analysts turned out to be wrong. HS2 was not being cut in order to release public sector funding for a tax cut. In place of HS2’s north of England sections, a whole smörgåsbord of transport schemes is being … Read more › “HS2 curtailed”
Greengauge 21 welcomes the release of the Terms of Reference for a study of options to complete HS2’s Eastern arm, while raising two concerns:
HM Government’s Spring Budget statement put two parts of HS2 on a 2-year ‘hold’.
But the main part of the works now under construction continues uninterrupted – from Old Oak Common to the new HS2 stations in the West Midlands … Read more › “HS2 Main Works Continue”
