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United Kingdom: Scrapping HS2 rail link would be a 'disaster', warns transport secretary

2013-09-28 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Abandoning plans to build the 42.6bn HS2 high-speed rail line would be a national disaster, the cabinet minister in charge of the project has said, as he admits for the first time that it will be more difficult to press ahead without the Labour party's support. In an interview with the Observer, the transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, insists that he, David Cameron and the chancellor, George Osborne, all remain fully committed to building the new line from London to Birmingham, Manchester...

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