List of support for High Speed 2

The planned high-speed railway in the UK known as High Speed 2 is supported by various groups and organisations.

Support

Organisations that support the HS2 project include:

  • The three major UK political parties: Conservative,[1] Labour (albeit with some criticism of the proposed route)[2] and the Liberal Democrats.[3]
  • Greengauge 21, a not-for-profit research company which focuses on investigating high-speed rail technology,[4]
  • The Campaign for HSR,[5] a campaign group led by Professor David Begg which aims to canvas support from businesses across the UK to promote the case for proposed high-speed rail. The campaign currently has support from over 400 UK businesses.
  • HSR:UK, a group of city councils: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Sheffield.[6]
  • Go-HS2,[7] a group comprising Centro, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Birmingham Airport and the NEC Group. The objective of the group is to promote the benefits that its members believe HS2 will bring to Birmingham and the West Midlands.
  • The Passenger Transport Executives Group (PTEG), which represents six Passenger Transport Executives.[8]
  • The Scottish Government, which is generally supportive of the HS2 project and has been engaged in discussions with the UK Government about the development of a Scottish high-speed railway connecting to London and continental Europe, with the aim of reducing journey times to London from Scotland to under 3 hours.[9]
  • The North East Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Support has been confirmed by local authorities in the North of England such as Manchester and Leeds City Councils[10]
  • Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which reaffirmed its support for the project in January 2012. The council's cabinet member for strategy was reported as saying "HS2 is the fastest way to deliver much-needed new homes, jobs and opportunities in one of London's poorest areas."[11]
  • 20MM (Twenty Miles More). A campaign group based in Liverpool with the aim to extend HS2 track an extra 20 miles (30 km) into the city to give a full high-speed rail service into the city centre and free existing classic lines for freight for the expanded Port of Liverpool.[12]
  • The Commons Transport Committee, which in November 2011 reported that the scheme had "a good case" and offered "a new era of inter-urban travel in Britain."[13] However, it also said there should be a firm commitment made now to extend the line to Manchester and Leeds and that other investment in rail should not suffer, and noted a poor level of public debate which had failed to address the facts and had resorted to name-calling and accusations of nimbyism.[14]
  • The High Speed Rail Industry Leaders (HSRIL) released a report in 2019 arguing that HS2 is necessary if the UK is to meet carbon emissions targets.[15]

See also

References
  1. "Transport". Conservative party. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012.
  2. "Labour's new HS2 fails to impress supporters or critics". RailNews. Stevenage. 1 November 2011.
  3. Holehouse, Matthew (20 September 2011). "Liberal Democrats Party Conference 2011: September 19 as it happened". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  4. "About Greengauge 21". Greengauge 21 website. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  5. "About". Campaign for HSR. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012.
  6. Campaign for HSR. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  7. "Go-HS2". Go-HS2. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  8. Passenger Transport Executive Group response to HS2 consultation July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  9. "NPF2 Action Programme – Action 3: Develop High Speed Rail Link to London". The Scottish Government. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  10. Bounds, Andrew; Tighe, Chris; Murray Brown, John (10 January 2012). "Business chiefs welcome green light for HS2". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  11. Courtney, Adam (10 January 2012). "Old Oak in Shepherd's Bush set for transformation after rail plan go-ahead". Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  12. "20 Miles More – Campaigning to give Liverpool a dedicated HS2 link". 20 Miles More. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  13. "HS2: Good case for high-speed rail link, say MPs". BBC News. 8 November 2011. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  14. "Transport Committee – Tenth Report: High Speed Rail". UK Parliament. 1 November 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  15. Devereux, Nigel (2 November 2019). "Leaked draft confirms Oakervee support for full HS2 route". The Railway Hub. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
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