⁦Heidi Alexander MP⁩ please stop throwing good money after bad and cancel the £100 billion Tory cxck-up ⁦Rupa Huq MP⁩ #hs2 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

When I observed to Andrew Adonis years ago that his beloved #HS2 project was a 'white elephant vanity project waste of money', he was so sure that he was right that this was the result. I was right, wasn't I, Lord Adonis?

HS2 Corruption "The PM has asked the Cabinet Secretary to consider whether mandarins and public bodies should face a formal probe for their role in the chaos" thesun.co.uk/news/politics/…

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HS2 Corruption Enough is enough - Michael Gross letter to Heidi Alexander hs2-corruption.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Penny Gaines It won’t open until at least 2039. It was meant to open next year. We will have lived 20 years in blighted homes, cracked from earthquake strength vibrations, breathing in their dust and being driven insane by their noise & their abuse with not one penny compensation.

Risible AIRTEXT alert for today MODERATE air pollution alert for Camden Alert issued: Sat 21st Jun 2025 07:00 Camden air pollution alert status... Saturday MODERATE Sunday No Alert We need to review thresholds in line with the WHO.

Agree with every word. HS2 always wrong choice. I worked on "Eddington review", quoted here, which specifically warned against. Made worse by appalling lack of political leadership & planning insanity. We should be really, really angry. Political failure has made us much poorer

Nick Kingsley HS2 escaped proper scrutiny by using the Hybrid Bill process. Only 4% of the design was considered necessary for the HB process & all it took was whipped MPs to vote for it in principle. It was bound to be a disaster. Don't blame the planning process - blame the concept & lies.

It's always a pleasure to meet and chat Simon Birkett of Clean Air in London So many memories!

Today, with the support of cross-party MPs, I am bringing the Clean Air Bill back to Parliament. Named for Ella Kissi-Debrah, who died from asthma linked to air pollution, Ella's Law will make breathing clean air a human right. theargus.co.uk/news/25273556.…

I could not admire Ella’s mother Rosamund more for her determined campaigning. We all deserve the right to grow up and grow old without potentially lethal harm being done to our lungs, hearts and brains by preventable air pollution. Ella's Law would give us that right.

Fantastic to see Sian Berry highlighting our report ‘A breath of fresh air’ during her 10 minute rule motion on clean air. Urgent action on air quality is needed if we are to reduce avoidable deaths and improve population health across the country. Read the report:

peter jones Unbelievably Lord Hendy repeats the lie to Transport Committee that higher speeds means higher capacity. For one train its true, but false when trains follow each other much further apart for safety. Maximum capacity reduces above 100mph. Higgins lied to TC & Public Accounts Committee in 2014/5.

Kate Lamble Just listened to Episode 1. It's great. One of Andrew McNaughton's big mistakes, that still persists, is the belief that higher speeds increase capacity. Hendy & Over said this last week to Transport Committee Trains need to be much further apart for safety & capacity reduces.

Kate Lamble Transport Committee HS lines have to increasingly larger curves: vertical & horizontal. That significantly increases the scale & number of structures, earthworks & tunnels & much else. McN's claim that the difference is only 10% (it was from 200 to 400km) shows he was incompetent & is now lying.

Speccie: Not what it was. Lost sooo many excellent writers. Greatest losses are Fraser & Jeremy Clarke. But replacing Katy Balls with Tim Shipman, judging by his smug performance at last night's Coffee House, questions Gove's judgement. I'm contemplating cancelling. The Spectator

HS2 Ltd It cannot be an upgrade to our railway when it is preventing many essential upgrades, reliability, capacity & resilience works being carried out. It will remain the most expensive & most futile change to our railway ever.

Bryan Davey HS2 Ltd Most of the money spent on WCML in the noughties was for deferred maintenance, not an upgrade. It's not full. HS2 will make no noticeable difference to road traffic or take freight off the roads. Throwing over £7bn a year at HS2 is deferring essential work on the rail network.

Kate Lamble Hi Kate. What a shame you were taken in by the future proofing argument that it had to be designed for 250mph. Or that tunnels were the problem. HS2 was not future proofed for capacity & has almost zero resilience with just one track each way that can't be fixed while trains run.