HS2 vote: ‘Come if you want to’
Tories and Lib Dems are running a three line whip on the HS2 vote – but it’s a “come if you want to vote for it, do feel free to spend half term with the family if you don’t” three line whip.
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Sir David Higgins, the boss of the HS2 high-speed rail project, proposes a speeding up of the building of the northern, phase two, section of the £50bn project, which is currently set to open in 2033.
Lord Heseltine tells Jon Snow the HS2 rail project will not turn Britain’s cities into commuter hubs for London, and denies that Britain is dominated by a privately educated, middle-class elite.
Tories and Lib Dems are running a three line whip on the HS2 vote – but it’s a “come if you want to vote for it, do feel free to spend half term with the family if you don’t” three line whip.
Your correspondent is making a strong call: HS2 is a done deal, it will sail through parliament, and if anything will be fast-tracked
This is the fifth time the government has attempted to make the economic case for the railway. Has it succeeded?
The figures in today’s Treasury benefit cost ratio of HS2 are both positive and spuriously exact. But don’t be fooled – this is a political rather than an economic project.
The benefits of the proposed £50bn HS2 high-speed rail line will not be as great as previously thought because of increased costs, according to a report.
The weather chaos on roads and rail today is as nothing, the government is warning, to the travel network armageddon that threatens if HS2 is not built.
Bristol, Cambridge and Aberdeen are among 50 areas that could lose millions as a result of the HS2, according to government research released for the first time.
Despite growing concerns over the spiralling cost of the HS2 high-speed rail line, the government says it will provide a £15bn a year boost to the UK economy.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin insists cross-party support remains for the HS2 high-speed rail project, despite concerns raised by Alistair Darling over its cost.
Twice the cost and disruptive to half a million people. Two blows to the government’s flagship High Speed 2 rail link between Birmingham and London.
The HS2 high-speed rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap which the government has yet to decide how to fill, a report from a Whitehall spending watchdog says today.
New high-speed rail routes to cities in the north of England are unveiled, with David Cameron hoping to boost Britain’s stagnant economy.
“On the day it announced the biggest infrastructure project for generations, the DfT released two different figures for how much it will cost, and is currently unable to offer an explanation why.”