Which is best — HS2 or rail upgrades?
11 February, 2011There has been debate over the last couple of weeks between the TaxPayers’ Alliance and Greengauge 21 on the merits of HS2 compared with upgrading the existing rail network. Read on »
Reply to HS2 Action Alliance and TaxPayers’ Alliance
7 February, 2011In reply to the counter from the HS2 Action Alliance on our press release, we agree with the point that it is important to compare like with like. Of course DfT haven’t made this task easy for anyone by comparing a lower cost incremental improvement to an existing (very busy) railway line against a more expensive and much more beneficial new line. Read on »
Planes or trains?
26 January, 2011At a Transport Times conference on 26th January, Sir David Rowlands, chairman of Gatwick Airport, suggested that it is “nonsense to suggest that building a high-speed network means there is no need for more runway capacity in the south-east.” Read on »
Providing capacity relief to the east of England
10 January, 2011We suggested in an earlier blogpost that serious consideration should be given to a second, eastern, HSR line in order to provide relief to the East Coast Main Line. Read on »
Britain’s HSR strategy should include a second north-south line
5 January, 2011Network Rail’s just-published draft London and South East Route Utilisation Strategy reveals that the Network Rail ‘New Lines’ work found there was a business case for a second, eastern, high-speed line in Britain. Read on »
