Treasury controlled Infrastructure & Projects Authority says about HS2 Phase 1 and 2A ‘Successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable.' What are they waiting for? https://t.co/wSOV4mn7O2
Single fares to Isles of Scilly to reach £!00 unless steamship company joins the Council's Levelling up bid process! Go it alone without government grant may be good for shareholders but disaster for the island economy.
https://t.co/RzOXwEjGAD
Over 100 prospective candidates approached by DfT for the role of HS2 chair refused this attractive offer, but they did not apprach me. I wonder why! Was this too much of a poisoned chalice or where they not offered a knighthood or peerage as well?
https://t.co/GD0DJsyaZt
Food parcels sent to rail worker and their families in Ukraine killed or injured in the war - thanks to
https://t.co/vnUEkud1BH More donations gratefully received.
From my Ukraine rail friends; UZ tries to provide passenger services on the liberated areas asap. Just recently UZ established multimodal service to Kupiansk in Kharkiv reigon using EMU/DMU/bus.
They need buses/minibuses. Tel: +38 (044) 309-68-47
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#HS2 "started as an incoherent decision and it has been incoherent in its execution as well...If ministers had been told that £100bn would not have bought a complete railway it might never have gone ahead"
- Former head of National Audit Office Lord Amyas Morse
(FT 26.8.21)
HS2 cost at today’s prices £155.52bn
Net cost of cancellation and repurposing £8bn
Press Release - HS2 under the axe – a perspective!
https://t.co/JFLxwuUIVd