Boris Johnson is about to spaff, as he likes to say, somewhere between £56 billion and $106bn on HS2, the high-speed rail network linking Birmingham and the north with London – but forget that, ...

The eastern leg to Leeds has been dropped from the Integrated Rail Plan, published on Thursday morning. Instead a “new study” will be ordered to determine the best way to eventually link the city to ...

(Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed tens of billions of pounds for a controversial new high speed rail line linking London with cities to the north, despite soaring costs and ...

Boris Johnson has announced HS2 will get the go-ahead, as part of a wider announcement on transport including more services and cheaper fares for bus passengers. The prime minister threw his weight ...

Scrapping the second leg of HS2 would be a “tragedy”, the government’s own infrastructure tsar has warned, saying it would send a terrible message to the rest of the world. Sir John Armitt, chair of ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave the green light for Europe's biggest infrastructure project on Tuesday (February 11). The line, which will eventually connect London with cities in central and ...

This past week, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, announced that the construction of a high-speed rail link between London and the North of England, known as HS2, would go ahead.

The PM criticised the HS2 company's management but said that did not detract from the value of the scheme Boris Johnson will appoint a full-time minister to oversee the project The route, to be ...

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Boris Johnson promised to build "the whole of HS2" after he was asked whether the north eastern leg of the high speed rail line will go ahead. He was questioned in the House of Commons by Gateshead MP ...