I'm on the way to Strasbourg today, and took these pictures
This is the reality of high speed one, and of high speed rail!
I have been campaigning against HS2 for a long period of time now, all my work on this subject can be found on my website: http://yourmep.org/hs2.html
Some rather interesting snippets of information on HS2 are emerging,
this was tweeted by @HS2_Questions
Sunday Times today says are spending £2.5m on 60 ("a carriage load") of spin doctors to counter "growing doubts about HS2 viability"
HS2 Questions has its own blog, which can be found here http://hs2questions.wordpress.com/
http://yourmep.org/hs2.html
Taken from yesterdays Metro,
"THE Channel Tunnel high speed rail link is carrying only two thirds of the international passenger numbers that were originally forecast, a spending watchdog says today. The £6.16 billion cost of the London to Folkestone HS1 line has exceeded the value of journey-time savings, according to the National Audit Office report. The line was built on the basis of 'hugely optimistic assumptions' about passenger figures when the government guaranteed the project debt in 1998, the report added. Plans for the second phase of the HS2 high speed rail project, which could include options for stations at Heathrow airport, will be published in the autumn, transport secretary Justine Greening said yesterday.
