Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want ...
Matthew Brooker is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business and infrastructure. Formerly, he was an editor for Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. China’s high-speed rail network ...
Transport secretary Louise Haigh has admitted that the costs of HS2 continue to spiral as she announced plans to “get the project back under control” with another independent review, say Jim Pickard ...
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday the southern leg of the HS2 railway line should run to central London, and that the government would commit funding ...
Regarding recent stories on the HS2 high speed rail project, it is worth remembering the approach of rival economies tackling the issue of big engineering undertakings. In 1941 it took shipyards in ...