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...“You’ve still got to dig 4.5 miles of tunnel and that won’t be paid for by the private sector,” he said in an interview....
...Their research found that since the project was greenlighted in 2017 planning applications in a 1.5 mile radius of HS2’s new stations and depot in the West Midlands rose by 66 per cent compared with just...
...The 359,000 pages of planning applications and £800mn spent on the Lower Thames Crossing would suggest that construction for the new 14-mile road and tunnel to the east of London was well under way....
...Sunak added that taxpayers would save a further £6.5bn because private developers would pay for the final 4.5-mile stretch into the centre of London and the rebuilding of Euston through a Canary Wharf-style...
...The final few miles of the line and the rebuilt terminus at Euston will take at least another 10 years to complete....
...The Beeching report was a landmark and now notorious document that led to the closure of stations and miles of track across the UK in the 1960s....
...But just a day later, the officials said the commitment to run the line relied on the government securing enough private sector investment, and that trains would otherwise stop at Old Oak Common, six miles...
...Sunak is expected to confirm that HS2 will run into London’s Euston station, after chancellor Jeremy Hunt launched a successful rearguard action to stop the line terminating at Old Oak Common, six miles...
...The 15-mile stretch of HS2 line that is shared with NPR is hugely expensive because it passes through urban parts of Manchester and involves two new stations....
...Although parliament has granted compulsory purchase powers from Birmingham to Crewe, it has not yet been awarded for the 28-mile stretch to Manchester, where there is still a debate about the best approach...
...Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, fought a rearguard action to at least ensure that the high speed line made it into central London, rather than stopping six miles out of town at a new station at Old Oak Common...
...Ministers have delayed by two years work on the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing, a planned 14.3-mile motorway east of the Dartford bridge in London....
...The line could terminate at Old Oak Common, six miles from central London, rather than Euston, to save more money....
...Even back in 2016, the price per mile of the London to Birmingham leg was five times equivalent schemes in Europe, according to the government....
...The view from Heathrow airport’s 87 metre-high control tower stretches more than 20 miles, overlooking the constant flow of aircraft taking off and landing....
...few weeks suggest they are readying a course for a company, owned in large part by the Glazer family, that has been rudderless since manager Sir Alex Ferguson and United’s former chief executive, David Gill...
...The consequences are clearly visible on the river Wye, which flows for 155 miles from mid-Wales to the Severn estuary in England, and recently had its health status downgraded by Natural England....
...As FT economics commentator Chris Giles writes in his latest (Premium subscriber) central banks newsletter, the last mile is the hardest....
...Standing in her doorway in the chocolate box village of Barton-le-Clay in Mid Bedfordshire, Gill Merrick says she will vote for whoever has the best shot at beating the Conservatives....
...The kelp forests here are home to nine harmless, mostly smaller, species – though the seven-gill cow shark can reach lengths of up to three metres....
...In March, the valves on an offshore pipeline 30 miles off the Norfolk coast were opened for the first time to release gas drilled from more than 7,000 feet under the seabed....
...Stuff I have enjoyed recently Tenacious utilities writer Gill Plimmer produced a balanced Big Read on Macquarie with FT colleague Nic Fildes....
...Lara Agbaje, an accountant, had a new bathroom and boiler installed shortly after moving into her 1960s-built home in Stevenage, 30 miles north of London, three years ago....
...Yet the water industry is where its report card has been marked, the FT’s Gill Plimmer and Nic Fildes report in this deep-dive into the company’s history....
...“We think that hydrogen holds out more promise than electric batteries for big vehicles,” Gill Pratt, a top Toyota executive, told me....
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