HS2 in the news
- Birmingham Post: Conservative Government won’t scrap HS2 says mayor candidate
- beleben: A trip aboard HS2
- Sun: FAST RAIL AXE FOR BREXIT Tory MPs want to put halt to £100billion HS2 high-speed rail network to save money for Brexit
- Manchester Evening News: Tories refuse to deny reports that high-speed rail to Manchester could be axed… to pay for Brexit
- Express: PM May will consider scrapping £56billion HS2 in Tory manifesto
- Guardian: HS2 is on its way but bid troubles and snap election could still derail project
- beleben: Conflicts, contradictions, and errors
- Rail Technology Magazine: Higgins defends botched HS2 contract despite conflict of interest
- Construction News: HS2 in front of the select committee: Five things we learned
- Times: Mace goes on attack over HS2 tender
- City A.M.: Asleep at the wheel: MPs and campaigners blast transport top dogs over botched HS2 contract
- Construction Enquirer: HS2 to make firms name all people involved in bids
- Rotherham Advertiser: Fears for ancient woodlands under HS2 plan
- Transport Network: Grayling on failed £170m HS2 award: ‘It worked as you would expect it to’
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 Ltd vows to ‘tighten up’ procurement process after conflict of interest row
- Times: HS2 boss admits failures over conflict of interest
- beleben: Better rail capacity utilisation through marketisation
- beleben: Price signalling and rail capacity
- City A.M.: HS2 boss David Higgins and transport secretary Chris Grayling to face grilling from MPs as Bechtel named for controversial £170m contract
- BDB Law: What The Election Means For Infrastructure
- Construction News: As it happened: HS2/CH2M parliamentary hearing
- Rail Technology Magazine: Bechtel awarded HS2 phase 2b contract after CH2M pulls out
- Construction News: HS2 grilling gives Grayling his legally blonde moment
- Global RailNews: Bechtel awarded HS2 Phase 2b contract
- Railnews: Bechtel wins controversial HS2 contract
- Mail: Bechtel named for HS2 contract after conflict of interests row
- Express & Star: Field of dreams? HS2 machinery moves into Staffordshire countryside
- Hucknall Dispatch: New report says HS2 will destroy ancient Hucknall woods
- beleben: More concentration in London
- City A.M.: HS2 starts hunt for designers of railway stations across London and Birmingham
- Times: Transport secretary in the spotlight after HS2 contract is derailed
- Canal & River Trust: The HS2 rail network and our waterways
- City A.M.: HS2 scraps contract in fresh headache as it gears up for MPs’ scrutiny
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 to scrap and rerun £10m management services contract bid
- Rotherham Business News: LEP HS2 response shows lack of consensus in the Sheffield city region
- Mail: HS2 procurement process seeks architects, designers and developers
- beleben: Obfuscation of HS2 demand forecasts is not in the public interest
- i News: HS2 will cut ‘trail of destruction’ through North’s ancient woodlands, campaigners warn
- Tamworth Herald: Villagers near Tamworth calling for evacuation exercise before HS2 gets going
- Horticulture Week: More ancient woodland threatened by second phase of HS2, says Woodland Trust
- Camden New Journal: Days after Article 50, European Union pays for HS2 drilling to begin in Camden
- beleben: David Higgins and HS2 carbon emissions
- Times: HS2 hires 17 firms to make its case
- Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust: Farewell Park Hall Nature Reserve
- beleben: Euston Greengauge dissemblance problem
- Times: Canadians in huge bid for HS2 engineer
- Telegraph: HS2 attacked over ‘flawed’ bid process
- Mail: HS2 bosses are accused of squandering taxpayers’ money after it is revealed they have 17 PR firms on their payroll
- beleben: The step-free route in HS2 inclusivity
- Scunthorpe Telegraph: Strong support for campaign to bring HS2 contract to Scunthorpe
- Rail Technology Magazine: Berkeley calls for review of HS2 as predicted Phase 1 costs soar to £48bn
- Planning Resource: Government changes tack on HS2 planning conditions
- City A.M.: Mace calls HS2 tendering process over £170m contract “seriously flawed” as it weighs up legal action
- Times: Carry on up the High Speed 2
- Times: HS2 embroiled in scandal over £170m contract
- Telegraph: HS2 contracts set for scrutiny as scale of links with contractor revealed
- beleben: What else will be axed to pay for HS2?
- Independent: UK rail passengers ‘endangered’ by biggest spending cuts since 2008 financial crash
- beleben: Failure while it’s cheap
- Sun: OFF THE RAILS HS2 plunged into chaos as its top boss walks out and furious MPs demand an inquiry into the £55bn project
- Yorkshire Post: Minister plays down aborted Yorkshire HS2 deal that ‘stunk to high heaven’
- City A.M.: Mace still isn’t happy with HS2 and wants the whole tender process rerun for controverisal contract
- Ham&High: Guide Dogs for Blind to be kicked out by HS2
- Express & Star: HS2 rejects call for re-run of bid process after ‘conflict of interest’ claim
- Railway Pro: CH2M asks its withdrawing in the HS2 Phase 2b contract
- Rail Technology Magazine: CH2M pulls out of HS2 Phase 2B development contract
- beleben: Too much capacity and not enough capacity (at the same time)
- beleben: HS2 speed and capacity loss, part two
- beleben: Stand down or be kicked off
- Mirror: HS2 engineering firm pulls out a month after being handed £170m deal
- Independent: CH2M pulls out of £170m HS2 contract citing ‘protracted delays and ongoing speculation’ about competition
- Sun: ‘COSY LITTLE RELATIONSHIP’ Engineering firm QUITS £170m HS2 contract to develop high-speed rail line in furore over conflicts of interest
- BBC: Engineering firm CH2M pulls out of HS2 railway line deal
- Derby Telegraph: MP Andrew Bridgen apologises after not declaring HS2 house sale
- Times: HS2 derailed by ‘conflict of interest’
- Times: Rail boss ready for an insurgency
- Construction News: HS2 civils contract awards pushed back
- Times: Brexit doubt is threat to big projects, Kier warns
- Rail Technology Magazine: Award of £8.6bn civil contracts for HS2 pushed back to June
- Burton Mail: Villages such as Measham to become ‘meat in noisy sandwich’ over HS2 high speed rail link
- Construction News: HS2 contract saga: New line of inquiry emerges
- beleben: Yesterday’s solutions and today’s fantasies
- Express: Domesday village to be “cut in half” by proposed HS2 high-speed railway
- International Business Times: Remains of explorer who mapped Australia could be exhumed as part of HS2 rail project
- Times: Euston rail dig may unearth last berth of navy’s Australia hero
- International Business Times: Transport expert ridicules HS2 as supersonic ‘rail pods’ could cross Britain in 12 minutes
- Canal & River Trust: We set out our response to the HS2 consultation
- Rotherham Advertiser: MPs send letter demanding HS2 route is scrapped
- Packington Post: A Third Way? – Village Response to HS2 is published
- Northwich Guardian: HS2 route changes opposed by Davenham Parish Council
- Construction News: Euston: HS2’s biggest conundrum
- beleben: Bad decisions beget bad connectivity
- Birmingham Press: UK Central Hub sets out HS2 site growth plan
- Warrington Guardian: HS2 building work could be threat to rare wildlife
- Camden New Journal: Look, it’s the ‘final spring’ in St James Gardens
- beleben: HS2 and national rail demand
- Times: HS2 delay feared after rival bidder fights award of work to US firm
- Construction News: HS2 contract saga sparks interest from Number 10
- National Trust: National Trust response to High Speed 2 Phase 2b Route Refinement Consultation
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 route “is the option nobody wanted”