Stop HS2
@stophs2
#StopHS2: no business case, no environmental case, no money to pay for it.
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What a shambles! @HS2ltd put the route through here using out of date maps! They didn't know the estate was even there. Some of it hadn't even been built. Another shining example of #hs2 incompetence causing misery to anyone in it's way
Safeguarding on houses in the Shimmer Estate - put in place to protect land the government may use for the HS2 project - have been lifted, almost 3 years after the HS2 route through Mexborough was scrapped. We spoke to Sean Gibbons, former Doncaster Cllr, about the safeguarding:
My latest series Derailed: the story of HS2 is on Radio 4 from 1.45 daily this week and next. Or you can listen to it all now here… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
The Transport Select Committee playing hot potato with responsibility... raking the taxpayer over hot coal 🌋 #WhereIStheMoney #hs2
Need to go in a moment, so that is probably the end of my tweeting from the #TSC on #HS2
Mark Wild #HS2 Ltd "management deficit in some skills", after MP reads out a memo saying that papers not received by Board in a timely manner. #TSC #StopHS2
#HS2 has failed to produce one reliable estimate on cost of #Euston says Mark Wild. Lost count of how many redesigns there. #TSC, #stopHS2
"Just because #HS2 has failed its mission", doesn't mean we don't have a great team, says Mark Wild at #TSC
From notice to proceed to now, #HS2 Ltd teams have been at 60-70% (frontline management) #TSC
150 vacancies when Wild started, now has 90 people in place. Has too many consultants within #HS2 . #TSC #stophs2
150 vacancies within #HS2 for people managing contractors. #TSC #stophs2
Lord Hendy agrees #Euston needs to be treated as a separate project. #HS2 #TSC #stophs2
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown says that #Euston is so big it could be a mega project in its own right. #TSC #HS2
We're tweeting from the Parliamentlive.tv #TSC session on #HS2 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/52…
Lord Hendy at #TSC saying that too many decisions on #HS2 taken without proper discussion with people running the existing railways. #stopHS2
Interesting from Mark Wild - contractors currently on #HS2 don't want to be there want to be building Sizewell or other projects. #TSC #stophs2
Mark Wild saying that no company could have bourne the risks of building #HS2 so had to be paid for by govt. #TSC #stophs2
Mark Wild at #TSC saying that contractors have no financial incentive to minimise costs of building #HS2. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown(sp) saying that MOD long since found this was a bad way of doing things. #stophs2
Step forward lord #HS2 Adonis and ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ McNaughton.
Alan Over at #TSC says that "difficult" advice needs to be given to ministers before schemes like #HS2 are taken forward. #stophs2