IET Video: HS2: what are the facts?
Friday, 28 September 2012
11:52 AM
HS2: What are the facts? The IET's transport expert discusses the project in this exclusive VoiceOver video
Depending on whom you ask, HS2 is a colossal waste of taxpayers’ cash, or a brilliant way to kick-start economic growth; an unnecessary half-measure to cut emissions or our best hope of the UK meeting our climate change targets. Few transport issues provoke quite such a strong response from the public.
But what do the experts say? The Institution of Engineering and Technology is the largest professional engineering organisation in Europe, and a leading source of impartial and independent engineering intelligence for all policy-makers. The IET’s transport expert Chris Richards discusses the engineering aspects of the project – sometimes overlooked in the heated exchange of opinion.
This video looks at the economic case, the engineering analysis, and the environmental arguments for High Speed 2, giving each one the IET’s fair-minded assessment.
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No matter how big the question marks over the HS2 project get, the government seems even more determined to push the project through. The only way to apply the brakes is for MPs to be responsible.
High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) has come under fire from the chairman of Britain's first high-speed rail network, in a further setback for officials at the Department for Transport.
Stop HS2 campaign coordinator Joe Rukin responds to the Commons' transport committee's report on high speed rail:
Campaigners are set to discover whether the coalition's much-disputed high speed rail consultation was illegal when a judge finally delivers his ruling later.
The abandoned west coast main line rail franchise could be followed by the scrapping of the Department for Transport's controversial planned high speed rail network linking London with Birmingham, its opponents are hoping.
The government fell for Labour's trap when it went ahead with high speed rail. This expensive new toy isn't worth the money.
Ed Miliband was spared an increasingly critical appraisal of his conference speech today, after a major coalition U-turn distracted the press from events in Manchester.
The west coast mainline fiasco has cost the taxpayer a "significant" amount of cash, the government's public spending watchdog has found.
Chancellor George Osborne outlines his fears about the "road to ruin" if "determined and concerted action" are not taken in Tuesday's emergency Budget.
