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This ‘Train’ looks like it might leave the platform next year

The Transport Secretary has confirmed that the government is committed to pressing ahead with HS2 to tackle the looming capacity crisis the rail network faces and to help boost jobs & regeneration along the line of the route and across the country.  Construction is due to begin on the scheme in the first half of 2017.

He has also confirmed plans to make £70m of government funds available to support local communities and road safety along the route between London and the West Midlands.

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DfT:  Transport Secretary confirms government commitment to HS2

IEA:  HS2 decision is economically unjustifiable

Instead of imposing the controversial, noisy & dubiously beneficial HS2 on the Shires, why not start with the ‘urgently needed’ HS3 & other road / rail improvements in the North

Will this ‘power-up’ the northern economy?

Editor’s Commentary: The devil is in the detail with consultations

An independent Scotland could require more than the ‘benefits of £24bn’ to both pay for the extension of HS2 and the subsidies of the existing railway(s)

PC&PE:  Government must 'get a grip' on monitoring rail franchise agreements

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