Crofton is a quiet,scenic village in Yorks menaced by HS2.We fought 1 route & a depot for 4 years & won. We fought the M18 Eastern Route for 5 years and won!
Great News that HS2 Eastern Route is dead. Everyone in HS2 communities happy. Wakefield happy. Rotherham happy. Mexborough Happy. Bramley happy. Crofton happy. Doncaster happy. @DanJarvisMP @TracyBrabin not happy. @Transport4North not happy.
FYI: TFN is a shill for @HS2ltd
#DowningStreetBriefing - The #OmicronVariant is here and massively dangerous, that's why i'm taking half-measures again instead of the pre-emptive lock down for Winter, that I know I should, but doing too little to late is what I have done in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd waves
Great News that HS2 Eastern Route is dead. Everyone in HS2 communities happy. Wakefield happy. Rotherham happy. Mexborough Happy. Bramley happy. Crofton happy. Doncaster happy. @DanJarvisMP @TracyBrabin not happy. @Transport4North not happy.
FYI: TFN is a shill for @HS2ltd
Stop wasting money, wrecking the planet, destroying ancient woods and smashing communities for a train Yorkshire has told you we dont need or want @BorisJohnson@stophs2
#HS2Rebellion reveal their secret Euston tunnel.
Despite the #greenwash, #HS2 will not be CO2 neutral for 120 years (source: @HS2Ltd) & its unnecessarily 400 km/h speed is destroying the protected habitats a green fast railway could avoid.
BBC1 London
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#hs2 is an icon for everything that is wrong with this country.
Incompetence,secrecy,abusing taxpayers money,misdirection of scarce resources,backward looking and driven by vested interests. https://t.co/mPXyqJLrKZ
@DerekLaCasta Nothing definite, but as far I can establish, Thurston did not even tell his own board, that HS2 could not meet the budget by £30bn & then Kelly & Ghani did not tell MPs even though they were questioned on costs multiple times. Over the 2 HS2 debates costs were mentioned 57 times
National Infrastructure commission rail review finds better regional links are more important than those to London. And full HS2 Eastern Leg would need another £43bn on top of the £86bn rail budget over next 25 years. Prioritises east-west links over HS2
HS2 latest - National Infrastructure Commission recommends government "prioritise links between nearby cities" over HS2.
DfT will make final decision on HS2 to Yorkshire in January.
@BBCLookNorth
One of most damming things about the Eastern Leg is the high number of home demolitions ancient wood damage & the lack of mitigation compared to Phase 1, 2A & Western Leg with Bham to Leeds only 2% tunnel compared to 22% phase 1 & 21% Western Leg
The Midlands does not need HS2. The Midlands and the North needs reopened and upgraded east to west tram and railways to take local commuters - hospital staff, shop workers, warehouse staff, teachers, refuse collectors, etc., to where they have to work. HS2 will not assist this.
Brilliant story on @BBCLookNorth from @spencerstokestv on how experts are now finally agreeing with Yorkshire folk that HS2 Eastern Leg must be axed for better E-W local rail connectivity @BorisJohnson
#hs2 trainline employee acting in a reckless way endangering a @Hs2Rebellion peaceful nonviolent protestor’s life by operating machinery trying to shake him off. Once again @hs2ltd operating above the law. What are you going to do @pritipatel? @BorisJohnson#stopHS2#ActNow
After treating the North as a Covid Death Peti-dish & Covid Job wasteland, really looking forward to all those "levelling up" North plans from demolishing homes, bulldozing villages and chopping down trees from JCB funded Londoner @BorisJohnson#HS2#Transport4theNorth@JakeBerry
Only a fool would spend £106bn of money we don't have, to build a high speed train line #HS2 nobody will use, to link City Centres workers have abandoned. Investing in high speed broadband in rural areas with village growth hubs will boost economy more https://t.co/DHRdDfUgK6