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Mistakes and omissions in the HS2 economic analysis

Stephen Plowden, London NW1
27 June 2014
 

The initial and fundamental flaw in the HS2 project was the failure to look at alternative ways of tackling the problems that HS2 is supposed to address. HS2 has been compared only with a “do minimum” option. When, as in this case, there are many promising alternatives, to pass such a test would not be a sufficient justification for adopting a project. In any case, HS2 does not pass it. Henry Overman is quite right in his criticisms (“Transport debate ‘damaged by dubious...

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