Il governo è pronto ad annunciare che la travagliata linea ferroviaria HS2 andrà da Londra Euston a Crewe, secondo quanto appreso da LBC

Excellent. Crewe is a proper hub station and taking HS2 there opens it up to whole heaps of travellers who change at Crewe for London services anyway. Whilst many passengers from Manchester & Liverpool will likely stay on WCML services for the time being, it means travellers from places like south Cheshire, North Wales etc etc will use HS2 services – which wouldn’t be practical if it went only to Birmingham.

Now what I would like to see is the immediate reinstatement of the safeguarding of the rest of the route to Manchester.

One of the breakdowns I seen about HS2 was they were trying to do everything all at once rather than trying to build parts of the line in stages and upgrades. We had built a relatively successful HS1 that was not mind-blowingly expensive through Kent and Essex. But the follow up was like trying to design and build the 747 and the airports for it and then do it with planning laws that meant air shafts were being redesigned to look like rustic barns.

HS3 can be built in steps with strong legislative support from parliament to give it priority place when planning is considered. As each step is moving forward and you can review what has gone wrong, you can add learnings into the next step.

Miliband and Haigh are by far the best cabinet ministers. I am glad if HS2 Ltd are being stripped of running this. Cost overruns are to be expected but the scale of excess on phase 1 seems worthy of a serious investigation in my opinion.