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Mayor ' On Tuesday Transport Secretary Grant Schapps revealed that initial estimates of both the timeline and cost of HS2 were inaccurate, and that delays and increased costs are to be expected

YEARS OF DELAYS TO HS2 'DISAPPOINTING' - MAYOR

A green light on HS2 and NPR in full would be a clear signal from the government that it recognises that historic underinvestment in strategic transport infrastructure outside London is a trend that must be reversed if all communities are to be levelled-up and regions rebalanced.

United Kingdom : A green light on HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail is critical to the long term success of the UK and all its parts, says new campaign backed by business and political leaders

HS2 could cost up to [pounds sterling]22 billion more than its previous budget and be delayed by as many as seven years, the company building the railway said.

Concern in the North over HS2 'facing a delay of up to 7 years'

Nigel Farage and the Brexit party have said they will scrap HS2, promising to spend the 'saving' many times over on Brexit fantasies - and Johnson is never knowingly outbid in that department.

Don't derail city's future on a political whim, Boris

But documents suggest that at least three years ago both the Government and HS2 knew that wasn't the case.

Ministers 'knew HS2 was way over budget'

That's why the business community, desperate for a first-world transport system in Britain, so strongly supports HS2 and is so angry at this latest navel-gazing review.

Boris, just be our prime minister and not a prime prat

The official HS2 price tag is PS56bn, but Johnson said last month that it was "probably north of PS100bn".

NOT SO FAST Government puts High Speed 2 project under review; Lobbyists warn that inquiry could lead to even more delays to HS2

And many opponents of HS2 have suggested that cancelling it could free up money to improve transport services in the North.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling warns Tory leadership contenders against scrapping HS2 high speed rail; Business and political leaders in the North and Midlands want HS2 to go ahead, says Transport Secretary

HS2 dropped all attempts to improve transport within the North and switched all focus to London.

Region could miss boat over trains

Palmers Scaffolding has designed and built a special access scaffolding structure for St James's Gardens in London, where HS2 is carrying out part of its archaeology programme, while DataScope Systems has planned vehicle movements for enabling works on a section of the Phase One route in London.

Welsh firms 'benefiting from contracts with HS2'

What is surprising is that these avaricious southern voices have been joined by misguided northern representatives who seem to think that if we cancel HS2 we will keep the money in order to improve northern east/west links between Liverpool and Hull.

We must not scrap HS2

HS2 Ltd insisted: "In a highly technical project of the scale and complexity of HS2, it is necessary to employ the right level of expertise."