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HS2 costs could hit £66bn, progress report says

This is up from the last estimate for phase one – £49 to £57 billion – from November 2023.

Evening Standard

Cost of HS2 could pass £80bn as estimated bill jumps 15% in a year

Projected bill includes price of building HS2 station at Euston, with a budget of about £5bn

The Guardian - UK

Government 'doesn't know' how much it will cost to finish HS2 between London and Birmingham

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh vows to rebuild Euston mainline station ‘with public money’ and says Tube station also ‘needs work’

Evening Standard

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£100m plus bat shed ‘tip of iceberg’ on HS2 delivery ‘failure’, says Haigh

The Transport Secretary described a ‘complete lack of efficiency’ in spending.

Evening Standard

HS2 spending more than £100m to build bat ‘shed’

Expensive saga an example of UK’s ‘genuine problem’ with completing major infrastructure projects, project’s chair says

The Independent UK

Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

Jon Thompson tells industry conference there was ‘no evidence’ that bats were at risk from the trains

The Guardian - UK

HS2 Ltd spending more than £100m on bat ‘shed’, says chairman

Sir Jon Thompson said this is despite there being ‘no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats’.

The Independent UK

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Yes, review HS2’s ‘dire’ delivery – but contract renegotiation matters more

To unpick this debacle, the transport secretary will have to cajole companies to go against their shareholders’ interests

The Guardian - UK

HS2 claim their trains will have UK’s ‘most comfortable seats’ as test designs revealed

The HS2 trains will include recling seats, plenty of leg room and reading lights

The Independent UK

HS2 high speed trains to Euston will be 'most comfortable' on UK rail network with 87cm of legroom

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm in the Budget that HS2 will run to Euston

Evening Standard

Plans unveiled for cheaper high-speed alternative to scrapped HS2 northern leg

Report claims 50-mile line would be slightly slower and significantly cheaper but deliver most of the benefits

The Guardian - UK

Climate activists in frame for £1m costs of protest bans run up by UK’s biggest law firm

DLA Piper seeking to recover costs in relation to injunctions it secured for National Highways and HS2, records show

The Guardian - UK

West coast fares could rise to incentivise people ‘to not travel by rail’, UK watchdog says

DfT told to look into lessening demand amid reduced capacity after HS2’s second leg axed

The Guardian - UK

Public will be encouraged NOT to travel after HS2 axed, new report finds

RISHI Sunak’s decision to curtail HS2 means the public may need to be incentivised not to travel by train, according to the UK’s public spending…

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Evening Standard

'Years of delay' before new HS2 station at Euston gets off ground, warns public spending watchdog

Report lists disastrous impact of Rishi Sunak’s decision to delay high-speed rail link

Evening Standard

Londoners living near new Old Oak Common HS2 train station hit back against plan to shut road for four years

HS2 is considering shutting a key road for up to four years, so it can carry out essential work

The Guardian - UK

Mayor says 21-mile cycleway alongside HS2 route a ‘no-brainer’ for West Midlands

Andy Street has asked HS2 Ltd to keep haul tracks for path linking Birmingham and Coventry

Evening Standard

Sinkholes open up above HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire

The holes were discovered on land where the Chiltern Tunnel is being built

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The Guardian - UK

Government ‘does not understand how HS2 will function as railway’

Parliament’s spending watchdog says cancellation of high-speed line’s northern leg raises ‘urgent questions’

The Independent UK

HS2 cost soars to £66.6bn, company chairman admits

The executive chair of HS2 Ltd said the cost has almost doubled from an initial estimate under Gordon Brown’s government that it would cost just £37.5bn

Evening Standard

Work on new HS2 station to begin early in 2024

HS2 Ltd executive chair Sir Jon Thompson said the transition towards installing railway systems will ‘edge us ever closer’ to completion

Evening Standard

Landowners on axed HS2 route left ‘suicidal’, MPs told

Rail expert Trevor Parkin told the Commons’ Transport Select Committee that HS2 Ltd officials are ‘dragging their feet’.

Evening Standard

Next HS2 boss could be paid more than predecessor's £677,000

Sir Jon Thompson, executive chairman of HS2 Ltd, told the Public Accounts Committee the salary to be offered for the vacant role is being assessed

The Independent UK

Government disagrees with HS2 estimate showing ‘significant’ cost rise

HS2 Ltd calculated in September that building the line between London and the West Midlands would cost between £49 billion and £57 billion.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s ‘spiteful’ sale of land intended for HS2 dashes hopes of revival

Prime minister’s move criticised as ‘salting the earth’ so Birmingham-Crewe line cannot be built

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