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Cash-strapped HS2 critics attack costings

­HIGH-SPEED RAIL

21 March 2014

 

High-speed rail critics have accused the Government of keeping the cost of HS2 artificially low and said the Chancellor’s announcement of plans to build a new town at Ebbsfleet, beside an existing station on HS1, showed that the claimed regeneration benefits of high-speed rail are fanciful. 

Responding to the Higgins review, Joe Rukin, campaign manager of Stop HS2, said: “David Higgins has spent three months looking for cost savings for HS2 and he hasn’t found a single...

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