HS2 in the news
- beleben: Does Yin have a yen to save twenty minutes?
- Guardian: The HS2 rail project is out of date and out of control. But it can still be halted
- Public Finance: Number of HS2 staff ‘paid more than £100k rises’
- Independent: Railway privatisation in Britain isn’t working for simple economic reasons – and the HS2 pay row just adds to them
- beleben: Easy eighteen
- Times: Chris Grayling under fire for letting HS2 pay soar
- Sun: OFF THE RAILS HS2 bosses gave a quarter of their staff six-figure pay packets amid concern over spiralling costs
- Express: One in four HS2 fat cats paid MORE than £100,000 – shock new figures reveal
- Mail: A quarter of the Government’s HS2 officials are now being paid six-figure salaries, with 15 on £251,000 a year
- Rail Technology Magazine: Extra £43bn needed to make the most of HS2, NIC chair says
- beleben: Crossrail (and HS2) platform height dubbed complicated and burdensome
- CityMetric: A parliamentary meeting about cycling provision along the route of HS2 showed me that MPs just don’t get it
- Independent: HS2 requires £43bn of funding for people to make the most it, government’s infrastructure tsar says
- Evening Standard: Lucy Tobin: What’s the point of mood lighting on HS2 if it’s overcrowded and late?
- beleben: Spend another £43 billion to make the most of HS2, says John Armitt
- Mail: Infrastructure chief warns HS2 needs an extra £43BILLION of taxpayers’ cash to ‘make the most’ of the ambitious high-speed rail route
- Financial Times: Ministers urged to spend extra £43bn on transport links in cities
- Times: Victims of HS2 land seizure ‘facing ruin’
- Telegraph: When people reach the end of their HS2 journey they will in many cases face inadequate public transport links
- Telegraph: HS2 is an obscenely expensive vanity project. It must end
- Telegraph: HS2 spending needs an extra £43bn to ‘make it worthwhile’, Government’s infrastructure tsar says
- Times: Touchscreen windows to distract travellers spooked by HS2 tunnels
- TransportXtra: Politicians didn’t see adviser’s damning assessment of HS2
- TransportXtra: HS2 Ltd is living in a fantasy – and we will end up paying
- BBC: MPs call for £100bn northern transport investment
- Rail Technology Magazine: Deliver NPR by 2032 and invest £100bn in northern transport by 2050, MPs demand
- beleben: HS2 Bickenhill tramway costed at £872 million
- beleben: HS2 transport benefits are “inconsequential” to the West Midlands public
- Sunday Times: China in driving seat to control HS2 trains
- Telegraph: HS2 is over-budget, unpopular and unjustified. Stop pouring billions into it
- Express & Star: Nigel Hastilow: Is it too late to slam the brakes on HS2?
- Financial Times: Leaked report claims HS2 ‘fundamentally flawed’
- Financial Times: The benefits of HS2 are becoming harder to discern
- Derbyshire Times: HS2 build could spell ‘the end’ of Stainsby Festival
- Yorkshire Evening Post: Minister rejects call to abandon HS2 ‘vanity project’
- Building: HS2 shelled out £1.3m on redundancy payments last year
- Kilburn Times: Kilburn community gear up for tense meeting with HS2 chiefs over controversial vent shaft
- beleben: The need according to Rachel
- Birmingham Live: People are getting ‘very disturbed’ about HS2 plans in Solihull
- Times: HS2 budget ‘will balloon to £80bn’, says secret report
- Nottingham Post: HS2 planners ‘miss’ lake in designs for viaduct in Long Eaton
- TransportXtra: HS2 will be four years late and cost double the DfT’s estimate, MPs told
- Bikebiz: HS2 “reneging” on Government cycle safety commitments
- Guardian: HS2 accused of breaching cycle crossing commitments along high speed route
- Cycling UK: HS2 Ltd is “reneging on Government cycle safety commitments” says Cycling UK
- Wakefield Express: Campaigners say ‘Don’t let HS2 ruin our lives’
- Birmingham Live: Watch: Furious traders clash with HS2 staff amid fears for their livelihoods
- Building: Serious doubts cast over major government infrastructure schemes
- Camden New Journal: Art protest against HS2 tree massacre
- Solihull Observer: HS2 Ltd needs to be more sensitive
- Wakefield Express: Victorious villagers stop HS2 in its tracks
- Winsford Guardian: HS2 campaigners warn of depot’s ‘inconceivable’ blight on community and countryside
- Knutsford Guardian: Properties on HS2 route left in limbo as country roads proposed for huge flyovers
- StokeonTrentLive: HS2 issues apology for ‘confusing’ compensation letters sent to North Staffordshire residents
- Bucks Herald: Campaigners hit out at HS2 “green corridor”
- Railnews: Senior Conservatives ‘discuss scrapping HS2’
- Financial Times: Europe’s high-speed rail network ‘slow, expensive and ineffective
- Conservative Home: Gove floats scrapping HS2 because he believes it to be a policy with a growing appeal
- Leamington Observer: HS2 ‘developing its own version of what ‘green’ looks like’ say wildlife chiefs in Warwickshire
- Sun: Chinese rail firms are leading race to run HS2 trains because British rivals appear to be in crisis
- Express & Star: HS2 ‘green corridor plans slammed by campaigners
- Mail: Chinese rail companies ‘are in the lead’ to run HS2 trains because British rivals Virgin Trains and First Group are beset by crises
- Railpage: EU funding ‘not spent wisely’ on high-speed rail network, say auditors
- Contractor Calculator: Off-Payroll Working: Contractor lifts lid on HS2’s non-compliant IR35 practices
- beleben: HS2 green corridor video is misinformation
- Kenilworth Weekly News: HS2 protestor locks minister in Kenilworth farm during ‘green corridor’ launch event
- Lichfield Live: HS2’s £2million green corridor plan branded “greenwash nonsense” by the Woodland Trust
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 reveals timeline and spend for next three years
- Financial Times: HS2 chief called to account over ‘robustness’ of budget
- Transport Network: HS2 accused of hiding £2bn property purchase overspend
- New Civil Engineer: Exclusive | HS2 civils design deadline pushed back eight months
- beleben: Sum kind of overspend
- Times: HS2 ‘covered up petrifying overspends’
- Building: Aston Villa forced to relocate training facilities to make way for HS2
- Camden New Journal: ‘Give me a flat’ plea of last man in street cleared by HS2
- Guardian: Fall in UK rail passenger numbers casts doubt on viability of franchises
- Leamington Courier: Reality of HS2 hits home after work starts on controversial line
- beleben: Elevated risk means increased cost
- Railway Magazine: Decisions over HS2 aspects remain illogical
- New Civil Engineer: High Speed Rail 2by3 Exclusive | HS2 civil works £1bn above target cost
- City A.M.: Initial costs for HS2 civil works costs are £1bn over budget
- Transport Network: First phase HS2 civils work ‘£1bn over budget’
- Canary: ‘Failing Grayling’ just sneakily bypassed parliament to give a £12m guarantee to a private rail company
- Guardian: Let’s replace the HS2 project with local transport investment
- Leamington Spa Courier: HS2 protest in Offchurch highlights impact of work on the countryside
- Coventry Telegraph: What HS2 bosses said about disruption to roads when work begins
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 signed £1.3bn Carillion contracts after profit warning
- Guardian: HS2: the zombie train that refuses to die
- beleben: HS2 East Midlands proposals get even worse
- CityMetric: Here’s why high speed trains don’t always save that much time
- beleben: Looking at ways to pay
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Burton Green – the village that will be split in two by HS2 line
- Metro: Thousands more dead bodies will need to be dug up to make way for HS2
- beleben: Loopy Richard and fuelish Jim
- New Civil Engineer: DfT doubts feasibility of UK-wide high speed rail network
- beleben: West Coast capacity uncrunched
- Guardian: Maglev trains: why aren’t we gliding home on hovering carriages?
- Construction News: HS2 eyes private funding for £21bn phase two
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 must be ‘X-shaped’ to bring high-speed services to left-behind regions
- City A.M.: The UK risks becoming ‘over-reliant’ on HS2 for national rail strategy, warns transport thinktank