Greengauge 21 has long advocated high-speed rail for Britain.
Our support was based on the weighty evidence of a study carried out by Atkins for the Department for Transport in 2000/1. Its remit was to look at high-speed rail, putting … Read more › “Filling the gap: West Midlands-North West England”
The Department for Transport is consulting on climate change adaptation and the approach it wants to see the transport sector follow. Greengauge 21 believes that the DfT’s proposed approach misses an essential need of an adaptation strategy.
While resilience is … Read more › “Why the nation needs a climate change adaptation strategy for transport”
For 15 years, a Government consensus held. The West Coast Main Line was the priority corridor for capacity relief in the form of HS2.
Now, with the section across Cheshire abandoned and completion to Euston fogged by the miasma of … Read more › “West Coast Lessons”
There’s no more money……
Rethinking rail’s future is the first of three articles produced for RAIL. It sets out the new reality for rail (of virtually no capital investment) and sets out how investment priorities might be re-set for transport, … Read more › “Re-thinking rail’s future”
