UK government refutes misconduct claims over HS2
Birmingham Curzon Street visual, January 2020
The Department for Transport has strongly denied claims that the UK parliament has been misled over the massive HS2 high-speed rail project costs. The serious accusations come from the former deputy-head of a wide-ranging review into the project, Lord Tony Berkeley.
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Lord Berkeleys letter was to Simon Case the Cabinet Sec & yet all your ‘reply’ info. seems to come from the DfT/HS2 Ltd, the very people that Lord Berkeley is accusing of parliamentary misconduct.
In fact I would not be surprised if Simon Case does not get ‘sloping shoulders’ & dump the problem, & get the DfT to answer Lord Berkeley, which would really be allowing the DfT to ‘mark its own homework’.
In my opinion the real problem for the escalating costs has been the ridiculous lengths the project leaders have gone to to reduce environmental impact on adjacent properties including expensive tunnels and cuttings to prevent trains being seen and heard by nearby property owners. No such lengths are gone to on major road schemes even though trains at high speed are relatively quiet and much less polluting.