5 Linked Articles:
- DfT’s narrow rationale for HS2 could weaken public support 17 Feb 2012
- We need new rail capacity but HS2 isn’t the right solution 3 Feb 2012
- Whose job is it to ensure the North benefits from HS2? 3 Feb 2012
- Not just about the numbers 20 Jan 2012
- Greening puts Britain on track to a high-speed future 20 Jan 2012
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Carbon emissions / Carbon trading, Economics / Appraisal / BCR, Railways, Greater London, Northwest England, West Midlands, Yorkshire & Humber
HS2 isn’t about reducing CO2 or the North-South divide, says DfT
Andrew Forster
Opponents of the Government’s high-speed rail plans were this week scrutinising hundreds of pages of documentation issued by the DfT in support of transport secretary Justine Greening’s decision to press ahead with a Y-shaped network linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
With opponents looking for grounds to seek a Judicial Review of the Government’s decision, many of the statements in the DfT’s documents appear intended to try and head-off the threat of...
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Greening: green light for HS2



