‘Obscene’ – HS2 on track to cost at least £102bn as minister slams ‘gold-plated folly’

HS2 is now poised to cost the taxpayer as much as £102bn and will not deliver its first service from Euston until at least 2040, according to the transport secretary who blasted the project as a “massively over-specced folly”. Heidi Alexander said the cost of the ill-fated train line was now on course to nearly [...]

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