Media speculates on HS2 and airport expansion as May enters No 10

As new Prime Minister Theresa May and transport secretary Chris Grayling settle into their jobs, two transport-related stories continue to occupy by far the largest number of column inches – high-speed rail and airport expansion.

LTT's MEDIA Monitor column would like to apologise for starting to sound like a broken record, but in the two weeks since the last issue of the magazine, media coverage of transport issues has continued to be dominated by two issues – the planned HS2 high-speed rail network and the future expansion (or otherwise) of Heathrow Airport.

Before Theresa May had even been officially confirmed as Prime Minister, for example, The Daily Mail was reporting on calls for her to scrap HS2. “HS2...

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