HS2 in the news
- Star: South Yorkshire MPs slam new high-speed rail link route as ‘badly thought out’
- Star: Rotherham Council objects to proposed high speed train route through South Yorkshire
- beleben: Midland connection and aspiration
- Construction News: Mace and HS2 set for second round of showdown talks
- Northwich Guardian: Transport chief urged to rethink ‘unsafe’ HS2 route
- City A.M.: HS2 investigates Mace’s concerns over its controversial contract award to CH2M
- Camden New Journal: HS2 will probably cost £80bn by the time it is completed – but it could be stopped
- Peakfm: Chesterfield Borough Council welcome HS2 proposals
- beleben: The hordes of Aldridge
- Sun: FULL STEAM AHEAD What is HS2 and when is work on the high speed rail line set to begin? Route maps and dates for phase two of the transport ‘game changer’
- Staffordshire Newsletter: Building work set to begin on HS2 line to South Staffordshire
- Mirror: World’s fastest underground ‘hover train’ could go from Liverpool to Manchester in just SEVEN minutes
- Manchester Evening News: A floating train could take you from Manchester to Liverpool in just seven minutes
- Liverpool Echo: Pigs might fly – readers don’t think superfast underground railway will happen
- Woodland Trust: HS2: keeping track of the runaway train
- Mail: Now that’s an easy commute! World’s fastest underground hover train could go from Liverpool to Manchester in 7 MINUTES and travel at 350mph
- Construction News: CH2M’s HS2 staff numbers revealed
- beleben: Look amazing and make a statement
- TransportXtra: HS2 will cost us £100bn … if we are lucky
- Financial Times: HS2 chief calls for ‘everyday low prices’ on new high-speed railway
- Rotherham Advertiser: No idea how many businesses will be affected by HS2 route, company admits
- Planning Resource: The planning hurdles that the HS2 rail link’s first phase must clear
- Leicester Mercury: County MP Andrew Bridgen will have to say sorry over HS2 house sale row
- Bucks Herald: “HS2 impact will be devastating”
- Camden New Journal: HS2 is post-truth decision-making
- Derbyshire Times: VIDEO: ‘Our beautiful village will be cut in two by HS2’
- Camden New Journal: In already polluted areas we are going to lose a great many trees
- Camden New Journal: HS2 tunnel work is considered a hazard and Camden Council must take heed
- Camden New Journal: Campaigners urge Camden Council to intervene over CS11 plans
- Bucks Herald: HS2, it’s going to happen, and that’s bad news for many of our readers
- beleben: HS2 speed and capacity loss
- Ham&High: Camden residents fear years of disruption as HS2 given green light with Royal Assent
- Burton Mail: New HS2 route around Measham could see 700 job losses, an action group claims
- Camden New Journal: Near empty House of Commons debates HS2 for final time
- Mail: The scandal of the HS2 homewreckers: Residents railroaded out of the houses they loved to make way for new high-speed line… only for it to be rerouted
- Farming UK: HS2 gains Royal Assent: NFU warns farmers must be treated fairly in construction phase
- Mail: HS2 construction work to start in weeks as line finally gets the green light after three years of scrutiny
- Yorkshire Post: YP Comment: High-speed rail’s new milestone. HS2 is finally passed into law
- Railway Technology: HS2 hybrid bill receives Royal Assent
- Yorkshire Post: Q&A: Controversial HS2 rail project
- Construction News: HS2 delays CH2M contract award after Mace objection
- TransportXtra: HS2 construction due to start in the spring after Parliament gives phase one final backing
- Sun: FULL STEAM AHEAD HS2 high-speed rail Bill clears final hurdle and gets Royal Assent from the Queen, Speaker John Bercow confirms
- Financial Times: HS2 line construction to start in weeks after royal assent
- Yorkshire Post: ‘Make HS2 line ready for HS3’
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 finally given green light in overwhelming Parliament vote
- Public Sector Executive: Councils divided as HS2 Bill is given Royal Assent
- getBucks: HS2 given the green light as controversial railways receives Royal Assent
- Bucks Free Press: HS2 construction to start in spring as controversial project is given Royal Assent
- Birmingham Post: HS2 work to start after final hurdle cleared
- Express: HS2 set to become a reality as Parliament prepares to give £56bn project the green light
- Yorkshire Post: HS3 – Second best is not an option
- Motor Transport: Investing the equivalent funding earmarked for HS2 into the roads would deliver four times the economic boost
- Evening Standard: Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer warns HS2 work will ‘devastate’ the lives of Londoners for 17 years
- Financial Times: HS2 faces legal challenge over £170m contract
- City A.M.: The case for an infrastructure spending splurge rests on shaky foundations
- Business Desk: Contingency plans agreed to minimise impact of HS2 construction
- Political Cleanup: Is the HS2 project the most blatant example of UK/USA’s revolving door/vested interest ridden politics?
- Star: Construction work on HS2 will blight lives for 17 years
- Sun: Theresa May urged to splash the cash on roads as new research shows Brits waste an average of FIVE DAYS a year in queues
- City A.M.: The HS2 cost for taxpayers could top £90bn, warns the TaxPayers’ Alliance
- City A.M.: Why HS2 could be a train wreck for Euston station
- Express & Star: HS2: Claims high-speed rail link could cost £200bn
- Public Affairs: Unlikely anti-HS2 lobbying alliance
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 residents will face ‘devastating impact for 17 years’, Commons told
- CLA: HS2 Land Grab Plans Reach End Of The Line
- Railnews: Last-minute bid to block HS2
- Derby Telegraph: HS2: Tensions run high as Long Eaton residents demand more answers from rail bosses
- Derby Telegraph: Plans to move section of M1 between J25 and Trowell Services to make way for HS2 rail line
- Express: Stable owners and farmers slam Government report into level of HS2 disruption
- Drum: Google and Uber could help run UK’s high speed train line
- Nottingham Post: One-mile stretch of the M1 in Nottinghamshire could be moved to make way for HS2
- Times: Defeated bidders on HS2 contract may go to court
- BuzzFeed: 9 Times HS2 Ltd Made A Mess Of It All…
- BuzzFeed: 9 Times HS2 Ltd Made A Mess Of It All…
- Yorkshire Post: Tom Richmond: HS2 and one-way ticket on fast train to jargon hell is not my cup of tea
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 can ‘only be as good as local rail connections make it’
- Construction News: HS2: Mace considers challenge to CH2M contract award
- Wakefield Express: Campaigners to pursue judicial over HS2 rail plans
- Construction News: CH2M HS2 deal pays out more than expected
- Doncaster Free Press: Court battle for HS2 group
- beleben: Going loco for Toto at lo-lo
- Wright Hassall: As HS2 confirms Phase 2 Development Partner, concerns rise about jobs for the boys!
- Derby Telegraph: Head of HS2 says ‘city’ would be created at station between Derby and Nottingham
- Nottingham Post: HS2 boss predicts a new ‘city’ will be created at Toton Sidings
- Times: Next arrival on the HS2 line: a brand new city
- Telegraph: HS2 is monumentally wasteful, outdated, and will do nothing for the North – it must be scrapped
- Northwich Guardian: Town councillors fear HS2 construction could hit Northwich businesses
- Debyshire Times: Is it now ‘full steam ahead’ for HS2 in Derbyshire?
- Middlewich Guardian: Canal volunteers fear HS2 changes could impact ‘tranquility’ of area
- mix96: Wendover HS2 tunnel ‘would save £750m over other options’
- Camden New Journal: HS2 triggers country’s biggest programme of grave exhumations
- City A.M.: HS2 payments to incoming chief executive’s firm CH2M surge from £1.4m to £32.5m in four years
- Knutsford Guardian: Royal Cheshire County Show under threat from HS2 route
- Northwich Guardian: HS2 would have major impact on Gadbrook Park, warns campaign group
- Lichfield Mercury: ‘Devastated’ Lichfield horse trainer Ed McMahon quits Whittington stables due to HS2 railway blight
- City A.M.: HS2 faces questions over the hiring of its new chief executive and concerns of a “revolving door” to a contractor
- Belfast Telegraph: Construction industry ‘heavily dependent on nuclear plants and HS2 rail project’
- Bucks Herald: The Wendover Society: “Alternate tunnel would save £750m” compared to HS2 LTD’s proposed plans
- Yorkshire Post: Transport ministers confirm Meadowhall route for HS2 still an option