MCheshireAgainstHS2
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Mid Cheshire action group against #HS2 £107 billion Gravy Train for vested interests. CO2 +ve for 120 years Undeniably environmentally harmful according to DfT
This is from 2017. We've done 3 reports on the "challenging" geology #HS2 route through Mid Cheshire. Expert work by geologists internal and external. It's why the M6 avoided this area (notice how it bends?) not ok for 70mph motorway but 250mph train? mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h…
"High speed rail enables stations on the Conventional Rail Network to get a more frequent service." The Steer report, sat on by DfT for 2 years, shows the opening of #HS1 had **virtually no effect** on frequency of stopping trains on the CRN. #HS2
In the report there's no detail on who these manufacturers are but in tbe past this sort of lobbying inludes those who have financial vested interests.
🚨 NEW: Britain's manufacturers want the government to restore the original HS2 line to Leeds and Manchester. High-speed passenger rail will increase capacity – generating space to shift freight from road to rail. #RailFreightFuture
As @rorysutherland says, instead of building high speed rail they should put great WiFi on the trains and hire the worlds best looking models to serve us champagne and we’d all wish the trains went slower.
#HS2 is the biggest financial fraud and scam ever. People are making millions for doing nothing. Expensive equipment standing around unused for months & you can bet we are paying for that on cost plus.
The Transport Select Committee playing hot potato with responsibility... raking the taxpayer over hot coal 🌋 #WhereIStheMoney #hs2
While the media is rightly lambasting HS2 this week, many commentators are still parroting the rail lobby's propaganda that the West Coast Main Line is "full". This isn't true and even if it were could be resolved at a tiny fraction of the cost of HS2. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…
Prediction: The #HS2 lobbyists are about to dump the Green Party after losing them a lot of support.
🚨BREAKING: First poll including new Corbyn party released: REF: 34% CON: 17% LAB: 15% Corbyn/Sultana party: 15% LDM: 9% GRE: 5% [@FindoutnowUK]
Gareth's bollocks is on another level. #HS2 is not even carbon neutral.
The @MayorofGM's new 'Liverpool Manchester Railway'. A scheme so utterly dumb that even high speed rail lobbyist Jim Steer can't support it. #HS2
A reminder that there are far more cost-effective ways of increasing rail capacity than squandering £100 billion on HS2. transportwatch.co.uk/2021/08/08/hs2… #HS2
Part of the reason #HS2 is the mess it is, comes from politicians and civil servants being ignorant of basic transport facts. Here's the DfT director of major rail projects, Alan Over, misinforming MPs - claiming #HS2-high linespeed increases capacity. #MIsleadingParliament
This @greensignallers video uses HS2 Ltd video and talking points to claim #HS2 means "far more local and regional services". This is misinformation. This **cannot happen**, and needless to say, there is no sign of extra CRN trains being ordered to run these "far more" services.
Government expenditure on #HS2 is around a **million pounds per hour, every hour**. #1million #TheOneMillionPoundsPerHourRailway With HS2 crowding out other projects, Midland Main Line electrification has been 'paused' again. #DejaVu #HistoryRepeating
This is a great letter. If only CWAC and CE were working as hard for their taxpayers. #HS2 staffordshire.gov.uk/Newsroom/Artic…
#HS2 eating all the transport busget means cuts to classic rail investment we said. No it doesn't they said...
Please sign and share: ‼️Demand a Full Public Inquiry into #HS2 Fraud‼️ #StopHS2 chng.it/MtZVKrMK2b
Who paid for this inefficient, incompetent, irresponsible gravy train waste of public money? Yep it’s the taxpayer!!!!!! Who sponsored it? Yep, both Labour & Tory Governments. The HS2 money train revealed — who’s made billions? thetimes.com/article/670df6…
Prior to giving HS2 civils contracts "Notice to Proceed" it was supposed to need to pass 6 "gateways" with the intention of assuring a target price. Somehow it was allowed to circumvent them having stalled at the first one. NAO were told there were 3 "review" points.