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The 15-year consensus on creating HS2 has been shattered. The fall-out causes all kinds of problems, in particular for the Midlands and North.
HS2 was not just a new railway, but an opportunity to get better value out of the … Read more › “HS2 curtailed: the regional fall-out”
The political analysts turned out to be wrong. HS2 was not being cut in order to release public sector funding for a tax cut. In place of HS2’s north of England sections, a whole smörgåsbord of transport schemes is being … Read more › “HS2 curtailed”
Greengauge 21 welcomes the release of the Terms of Reference for a study of options to complete HS2’s Eastern arm, while raising two concerns:
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”
