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Six questions that need answering before we take a decision on building HS2

Peter Mackie, University of Leeds
18 December 2013
Peter Mackie is professor of transport studies at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. This article is based on his paper to the House of Commons transport committee inquiry on HS2.
Peter Mackie is professor of transport studies at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. This article is based on his paper to the House of Commons transport committee inquiry on HS2.

 

It is a feature of many big transport projects that they go through massive wobbles. The third London Airport, the Channel Tunnel, HS1 and Crossrail are all examples and the very name Thameslink 2000 is a reminder of the syndrome that HS2 is now experiencing.  

My overall position having had the benefit of membership of HS2’s analytical challenge panel until March 2012 is that HS2 is not a stupid ill-conceived vanity project but neither is it a game-changing transformational project...

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