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EXPLAINED: 3 - The Real Truth

Plans unveiled for cheaper high-speed alternative to scrapped HS2 northern leg

Report claims 50-mile line would be slightly slower and significantly cheaper but deliver most of the benefits

The Guardian - UK

Climate activists in frame for £1m costs of protest bans run up by UK’s biggest law firm

DLA Piper seeking to recover costs in relation to injunctions it secured for National Highways and HS2, records show

The Guardian - UK

West coast fares could rise to incentivise people ‘to not travel by rail’, UK watchdog says

DfT told to look into lessening demand amid reduced capacity after HS2’s second leg axed

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Public will be encouraged NOT to travel after HS2 axed, new report finds

RISHI Sunak’s decision to curtail HS2 means the public may need to be incentivised not to travel by train, according to the UK’s public spending…

The National (Scotland)

'Years of delay' before new HS2 station at Euston gets off ground, warns public spending watchdog

Report lists disastrous impact of Rishi Sunak’s decision to delay high-speed rail link

Evening Standard

Londoners living near new Old Oak Common HS2 train station hit back against plan to shut road for four years

HS2 is considering shutting a key road for up to four years, so it can carry out essential work

Evening Standard

Mayor says 21-mile cycleway alongside HS2 route a ‘no-brainer’ for West Midlands

Andy Street has asked HS2 Ltd to keep haul tracks for path linking Birmingham and Coventry

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Sinkholes open up above HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire

The holes were discovered on land where the Chiltern Tunnel is being built

Evening Standard

Government ‘does not understand how HS2 will function as railway’

Parliament’s spending watchdog says cancellation of high-speed line’s northern leg raises ‘urgent questions’

The Guardian - UK

HS2 cost soars to £66.6bn, company chairman admits

The executive chair of HS2 Ltd said the cost has almost doubled from an initial estimate under Gordon Brown’s government that it would cost just £37.5bn

The Independent UK

Work on new HS2 station to begin early in 2024

HS2 Ltd executive chair Sir Jon Thompson said the transition towards installing railway systems will ‘edge us ever closer’ to completion

Evening Standard

Landowners on axed HS2 route left ‘suicidal’, MPs told

Rail expert Trevor Parkin told the Commons’ Transport Select Committee that HS2 Ltd officials are ‘dragging their feet’.

Evening Standard

Next HS2 boss could be paid more than predecessor's £677,000

Sir Jon Thompson, executive chairman of HS2 Ltd, told the Public Accounts Committee the salary to be offered for the vacant role is being assessed

Evening Standard

Government disagrees with HS2 estimate showing ‘significant’ cost rise

HS2 Ltd calculated in September that building the line between London and the West Midlands would cost between £49 billion and £57 billion.

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Sunak’s ‘spiteful’ sale of land intended for HS2 dashes hopes of revival

Prime minister’s move criticised as ‘salting the earth’ so Birmingham-Crewe line cannot be built

The Independent UK

Key dates of the HS2 rail project

It has been controversial since plans for the rail line first emerged in 2009.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak strips HS2 bosses of responsibility for Euston

The Prime Minister said ‘there must be some accountability for the mistakes made’

The Independent UK

HS2 Timeline: How much has been spent and what happened?

HS2’s budget has ballooned, with costs reportedly breaching £100 billion

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The Independent UK

Key dates of the HS2 rail project

HS2 has been a controversial project since plans emerged in 2009.

The Guardian - UK

HS2: a long and winding timeline of the troubled high-speed rail project

Since Labour announced plans for north-south high-speed rail network nearly 14 years ago, project has been beset by problems

The Independent UK

HS2 route mapped as northern leg to Manchester to be scrapped

Government axes plan for northern leg of much-delayed and over-budget high speed railway

The Guardian - UK

£600m of public money spent buying up property in north of England for HS2

Homes and land purchased to make way for line that now appears to be in doubt, as Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to it

Evening Standard

HS2 boss resigns amid speculation of further cuts

HS2 Ltd boss Mark Thurston leaves his role on Friday

The Guardian - UK

‘We are a political project’: how HS2’s costs have spiralled out of control

Placating Conservatives in marginal seats, inflation in construction and a maze of bureaucracy have seen the cost balloon from £32bn to £71bn

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Hunt can’t play shocked at HS2’s cost overruns

Yes, the costs of the high-speed rail project are getting ‘totally out of control’ – but it’s hardly lacked political oversight

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