re:think HS2

The Campaign for Rail Rail: HS2 should be revised to provide a full network like High Speed UK does. Pay for it with Land Value Tax/Property devt. #rethinkHS2

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

Looks like the writing is on the wall for HS2... https://t.co/vS5vFrwZfE

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[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@SamHufton1 @GeorgeMonbiot The case for HS2 has never been made because it was never done as a strategic initiative. No consideration of other routes and options was considered despite way better value for £20bn less money at https://t.co/13mKyy4oed

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@royston_crow @GeorgeMonbiot Better though is https://t.co/13mKyy4oed

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@Greens4HS2 Why not https://t.co/13mKyy4oed ??

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@MelHorrocks19 @GeorgeMonbiot @Greens4HS2 But look at https://t.co/13mKyy4oed first. There's a better way. HS2 may have some significant sunk costs but it isn't too late to do the right thing for the country

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@Jamierisner2 @GeorgeMonbiot No. What is key to that is to build a rail network, not a single line. https://t.co/13mKyy4oed

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@penny__traitor @caspardw @GeorgeMonbiot Any campaign against HS2 is not misguided when there is a £20bn cheaper option that delivers actual value across the country. Just look at the House of Lords review into it. Zero economic benefit

[Neale U 💚  🇺🇦 = 🇵🇸 = Cuba @nealeu]

@jordanbhx @DearDolores @GeorgeMonbiot I hope you are aware of @rethinkHS2 i.e. https://t.co/6catpbI7qa which is way cheaper, incremental, connected and uses an already industrialised route (the M1 corridor)

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@cynicalkind @SteB777 @GeorgeMonbiot Oh come on. You've been backing HS2 as the only possible option for years despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

[John Marriott 🍃💚🍃🚲 @HS2theTruth]

@TomRLancaster @GeorgeMonbiot Because HS2 is not low carbon infrastructure, it does very little except encourage more travel & it is wasting money that could be used on far better things that would reduce carbon & travel.

[Hugh Jaeger @HughJaeger]

@o_logical @GeorgeMonbiot @stophs2 This is HS2's own forecast. Before #Covid19 it said it *might* be carbon-neutral after 120 years, but even then could not be sure.

#Covid19 hastens the move to working from home & demand for faster broadband, which further weakens HS2's economic & business case.

[Hugh Jaeger @HughJaeger]

@o_logical @GeorgeMonbiot HS2 admits it will not be carbon-neutral for 12 decades, if ever. We need to minimise GHG's before 2030.

Building HS2 has a huge embedded carbon footprint. It will increase climate change in the critical decade in which we should be reducing it.

We should @stophs2 immediately.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I suspect that as the business case for HS2 becomes ever more absurd, the project will eventually be abandoned, but not before many £bns have been spent, and more precious habitats destroyed. The protesters are speaking truths that even the government will one day have to hear.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The #HS2 protesters are heroes. HS2 is the Concorde of the 21st Century: a money-guzzling, carbon-pumping white elephant that - if it ever comes to fruition - will serve the rich at everyone else's expense.
https://t.co/g7iS0pbRQj

[re:think HS2 @rethinkHS2]

@systemicreform @grantshapps @DanielZeichner @WoodlandTrust Exactly! https://t.co/13mKyy4oed

[Systemic Reform @systemicreform]

@grantshapps What assessment have you made of the High Speed UK plans which use existing transport corridors and deliver economic benefits to many towns and cities?
@rethinkHS2 @DanielZeichner @WoodlandTrust

[Richard Wellings @RichardWellings]

Unfortunately this suggests the Chancellor has quite a poor grasp of basic economics, which is bad news for the economy more generally. A project where the costs will exceed the benefits is pointless, not just bad value for money. https://t.co/LEZDXuxKRK #HS2

[Neale U 💚  🇺🇦 = 🇵🇸 = Cuba @nealeu]

Time to @rethinkHS2 and deliver something incremental that benefits the whole country not just 2 or 3 big cities while reducing services to others

[mop denson @mopdenson]

@LucyMPowell @henrimurison @NP_Partnership @BBCr4today HS2 notice to proceed has been delayed another 6 months. HS2 Ltd have admitted they are considering slowing down trains, & reducing the amount of trains, to get costs down. We should not continue with this flawed project because some still believe in the fantasy of #HS2.

[Martin Anthony Tett @MATatBucks]

Hopes of cancelling HS2 grow as Liz Truss says its costs to be reviewed

[peter jones @HS2DeadDuck]

And I am the Queen of Sheba #HS2