This week, the Government has announced its decision to give the green light to the first phase of HS2 to be completed by 2026. The high-speed line is intended to decrease journey time from London to Birmingham from 1 hour 24 minutes to 49 minutes and with its Y routes ...
In an interesting comment in The Times this week, David Wighton commented that "Decades of underinvestment have left large parts of Britain's physical infrastructure in a woeful state that seriously undermines our international competitiveness. Our airports and railways are badly overstretched and we lag behind many rival countries in broadband". ...


