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Alas In Wongaland 27 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
This post was originally published on HS2 Buzz Dave had been sitting for a very long time, while Nick read the Lib Dem manifesto to him again. It was a hot day and Dave was wondering how the heck he m...
Institute of Directors join a growing list of HS2 opponents. 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
After a comprehensive survey of their member the Institute of Directors have decided that HS2 is “Not worth the money” and that it is a “Grand folly”, with Simon Walker, Director General of the Instit...
Is anyone without a vested interest willing to stand up for HS2? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
In the week since the IEA criticised vested interest groups as being the only ones supporting HS2, surprise surprise, a host of vested interest groups have crawled out of the woodwork to defend HS2. ...
HS2, not exactly the right stuff 25 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
This week, HS2 featured on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5. Needless to say the idea didn’t go down too well. No related content found.
The Chicken Gun 24 Aug 2013 | 01:48 pm
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch a standard 4 pound dead chicken at the windscreens of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea ...
Some Parliamentary Written Answers 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
From Hansard, 11th July: High Speed 2 Railway Line Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the original estimate was of the cost of the High Speed 2/High Speed 1 link single bo...
HS2 Ltd short-changing Phase 2 communities on consultation and engagement. 22 Aug 2013 | 01:06 pm
Communities impacted by Phase 2 of HS2 are being short-changed by a total of 23 consultation roadshow events, according to the Stop HS2 campaign. Additionally communities have been told that after the...
Treasury insiders put cost of HS2 at £73,000,000,000 21 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
Treasury officials have told the Financial Times that the cost of building HS2, currently officially at £42.6bn, would be closer to £73bn in cash terms. The official construction costs are already two...
CPRE investigation shows hidden devastation of HS2 20 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England has managed to winkle information out of HS2 Ltd which has been kept secret so far, and clearly should have been made available during the public consu...
IEA publish ‘The most scathing independent analysis of HS2 so far’. 19 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
A report published by the Institute of Economic Affairs has been described by the Stop HS2 campaign as ‘the most scathing Independent analysis of HS2 so far.’ In the report In the report “The High-Spe...
