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From HS2 to the NHS, Britain doesn’t cut costs. Disastrously, it just cuts corners

Short-termist and kneejerk decisions to ‘balance the books’ always end up with the exchequer paying out more for less

The Guardian - UK

Loose ends in London and Birmingham raise new fears over HS2’s route – and future

With its route map pruned, leaders in the north want other options, while in the capital, questions are growing over its Euston terminus – still a giant hole in the ground

The Guardian - UK

HS2 Euston Station regeneration could add £41billion to economy, says report

The future of the mainline station is at ‘critical juncture’, says council leader

Evening Standard

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The money Sunak ‘saves’ from HS2 seems to be shrinking with every announcement

While the PM makes empty promises to the north, he lacks the courage to cancel the white elephant London-Birmingham line, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Fund to hand out £4.7bn from axed HS2 northern section to smaller projects

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Sinkholes open up above HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire

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

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Mayors put forward alternatives to HS2 scrapped northern section

Andy Burnham and Andy Street team up with consortium to explore options including lower-speed line

The Guardian - UK

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 London to Birmingham cost balloons to £68billion with no open date set for Euston, report reveals

MPs are 'more concerned about the HS2 programme than ever before'

Evening Standard

UK wasting ‘tens of billions’ on crumbling infrastructure and badly run projects

Spending watchdog says smarter government can find huge savings for better public services

The Guardian - UK

HS2: true cost of London-Birmingham line is more like £66bn, boss admits

Inflation means project £8bn-£10bn more expensive than 2019 estimate, MPs told

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

Labour could revive HS2 northern legs after government fails to sell off land

Sources say land bought for train route north of Birmingham unlikely to be sold before polls – paving way for project’s revival

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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

The Independent UK

Scrapping HS2 ‘will bring higher fares and congestion for decades’

Plans to make up for the lost capacity due to the cancellation of the railway, first revealed by The Independent, are said to be years away

The Guardian - UK

New plans for HS2 money will bring ‘higher fares and congestion for decades’

Rail experts say predicted passenger congestion north of Birmingham will mean ticket price rises to reduce demand

The Independent UK

Tories savaged for spending HS2 millions promised to north on London potholes

‘Can someone send them a map?’ Ministers mocked for post on money for north going to London

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Private sector will pay for HS2 Euston tunnel, Transport Secretary Mark Harper insists

The National Infrastructure Commission warns that developers will not pay for the tunnelling works

The Guardian - UK

Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project

£235m funding for capital’s roads is possible only because of investment that comes from scrapping northern leg of HS2

Evening Standard

Government invests £235m in London's roads using funds from HS2

Roads will be resurfaced across the capital over the next 11 years

The Guardian - UK

XR co-founder who broke window at HS2 protest given suspended sentence

Dr Gail Bradbrook found guilty of criminal damage to Department for Transport building in 2019

The Independent UK

Northern council says it faces bankruptcy over scrapped HS2 link

Cheshire East council mourns ‘devastating impacts’ of Rishi Sunak’s decision to ditch high-speed rail

The Guardian - UK

Cheshire East council says it faces bankruptcy due to HS2 link cancellation

Local authority covering some of richest areas in England says it spent £11m preparing for rail line

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s chaos’: ruined plans, lost hours at UK’s worst station for cancelled trains

Huddersfield’s travellers are used to poor service. But many fear for the economic damage a dysfunctional rail system causes

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