HS2 in the news
- Birmingham Live: “Hideous” HS2 viaducts spark local fears for Solihull
- Financial Times: HS2 engineering academy struggles to recruit students
- beleben: Permanently seeking delusion
- Construction News: HS2’s skills college: What’s holding it back?
- Construction News: High-speed rail college faces battle for funding and students
- Construction News: HS2’s college fails its first year
- Camden New Journal: HS2 doubts as Tories query cost of controversial rail link
- New Civil Engineer: Rees-Mogg: ‘Pull the plug’ on HS2 to fund Bath bypass
- Express: ‘HS2 flawed waste of money’ MEP RAILS AGAINST ‘vanity project’ amid stretched public purse
- Construction News: HS2 at 10: The costs, conflicts and controversy
- Construction News: HS2: the grenade that must not be chucked
- Rail Technology Magazine: Work begins on high-speed rail in Birmingham as Tories quarrel over HS2 future
- New Statesman: Cabinet rows over HS2 expose Theresa May’s vulnerability beyond Brexit
- Express & Star: HS2 is not a priority Mr Street
- Construction News: HS2: Boris calls for £56bn line to be stopped
- beleben: Dites oui aux gâchis, says Henri
- Telegraph: More pressure on HS2 after Commons leader Andrea Leadsom calls for it to be scrapped
- Mail: Cabinet split over new bid to derail £56billion HS2 as senior Tories call to axe rail project
- beleben: HS2 chaos is one broken cable away
- TransportXtra: HS2 could face 20 per cent VAT bill on construction costs
- beleben: Sum to put forward
- Shropshire Star: Angry Shropshire councillors call for suspension of HS2 in letter to Prime Minister
- Bucks Free Press: ‘Inadequate and ill-informed’: HS2 project slammed over lack of communication
- Architects Journal: Astragal: ‘Grotesque and inappropriate’ – it’s a thumbs down for HS2 viaducts
- Farmers Weekly: Fed-up farmer blocks HS2 access to land
- beleben: Saturate before schmoozing
- PR Week: High-speed operator condemned over comms failings
- Doncaster Free Press: Government agrees to pay out millions to Doncaster residents over HS2
- Mail: Thousands of saplings planted to make up for ancient woodland destroyed by HS2 work are allowed to die in heatwave because it was ‘not cost effective’ to water them
- Farming UK: HS2 completes just half of advance payments to affected landowners
- Camden New Journal: Hundreds of HS2 lorries to be sent down residential streets
- Yorkshire Post: The Yorkshire Post says: HS2 and its tests. High-speed line of reasoning
- Blackpool Gazette: HS2 boss defends gravy train accusations over six figure salaries
- New Civil Engineer: Concerns mount over Euston Station redevelopment
- Birmingham Post: Fears HS2 will cut Solihull communities in two
- Mail: HS2 critics slam ‘grotesque Stalinist’ bridge designs set to carry 250mph high-speed trains will ‘vandalise’ the beauty of the Chilterns
- Times: HS2 will inflict ‘Stalinist’ design on the Chilterns
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 land purchase costs triple in six years, ‘significant uncertainty’ remains
- Mail: Cost of buying land on HS2 route TRIPLES in just six years to hit £3.3billion following changes to the route, National Audit Office reports
- Express: HS2 protest: Half of Theresa May’s Cabinet ‘want to CHUCK’ rail project, MP reveals
- Express: Express exclusive poll reveals May should scrap ‘pointless £56bn HS2’
- beleben: Don’t turn back on clanger
- Express: ‘TIN-EARED’ Theresa May under pressure to DROP HS2 – shock Express poll reveals OPPOSITION
- beleben: Hue and croy
- Telegraph: Public would rather spend £56 billion HS2 fund on NHS, Telegraph poll finds
- beleben: Capacity with minimal disruption
- Yorkshire Post: Worries growing of delays to HS2 in the North
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 boss quits just a day after Phase 2 bill suffers 12-month setback
- Times: HS2 legislation pushed back a year as doubts grow over £56bn project
- Railnews: HS2 ‘delayed’, while critics plan alternative transport schemes
- Express: HS2 DELAY: Key legislation for Manchester and Leeds HS2 extension ‘delayed for A YEAR’
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 suffers setback as legislation delayed by 12 months
- Infrastructure Intelligence: HS2 legislation for northern phase of £56bn project to be delayed by a year
- Mail: HS2 legislation will be delayed by 12 months – report
- beleben: Chrissing with confidence
- Rail Technology Magazine: Crossrail delay: Politicians and businesses react to the ‘massive catastrophe’
- Express: Crossrail route MAP: Where will the Elizabeth Line go through? Why has it been delayed?
- Guardian: London Crossrail opening postponed until autumn next year
- Yorkshire Post: Andrew Vine: Scrap the waste of money that is HS2 and fix the North’s rail services
- Times: Crossrail and HS2 will set tills ringing in the West End
- Mail: PETER OBORNE: I fear a new cabinet war is looming – over £100 billion HS2 pipe dream
- beleben: Dive into HS2
- Morning Star: Grayling accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ after former Carillion boss boards HS2 gravy train
- beleben: Avoiding huge regret
- beleben: Well beyond the highest
- Times: Spanish manufacturer Talgo sues HS2 over £2.8bn train deal
- Guardian: HS2 and the continuing north-south divide
- Telegraph: If there’s money to spend, put it into telecoms, not HS2
- 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’