Tory plans for HS2 will REDUCE capacity between London and Manchester
HS2 was meant to solve a capacity crisis on the rail network, but scrapping the northern leg of HS2 actually reduces capacity.
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Govt selling off HS2 land at a loss to prevent future administrations reversing its decision
That means an unelected prime minister is selling a public asset at a loss to prevent a future elected prime minister from reversing his decision.
Decision to scale back HS2 will put ‘half a million more lorries on the road’
Firms say a single freight train removes the equivalent of around 129 lorries from Britain's roads.
Devon to get new railway stations thanks to axed HS2 funding
"Devon’s railway network is expanding under this Conservative government", Huw Merriman proudly announced.
Pojects to be funded by HS2 money were ‘only illustrative’ – Sunak
The party unveiled a list of transport projects that would be financed by cutting the northern leg of HS2, but apparently they were just "illustrative".
Train driver ‘refuses to depart’ Manchester due to overcrowding in same week Sunak cancels HS2
“The trains going nowhere until passengers leave”
Simon Calder nails why Govt’s decision to scale back HS2 is so bad
Cutting the line short shows the prime minister’s "contempt for the North – while the arguments used to abandon the scheme show contempt for the whole nation"
HS2 alternative plans watered down or dropped a day after being announced
Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said Network North was a ‘back of a fag packet’ plan.
Cancelling HS2 contracts to cost hundreds of millions of pounds
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the cost of pulling out of the agreements will ‘broadly balance out’ with money recovered from selling land.