HS2 bosses 'confident' of green light as recently as July

摘要

HS2 senior managers expected as recently as this summer that they would be given the go-ahead to start main construction work early next year. At a planning meeting between HS2 and 13 local authorities, including Birmingham city council, Buckinghamshire council and Chiltern district council, railway bosses said mobilisation on the first phase would start in early 2020.