It's vital that public transport addresses social equity and mobility challenges. A personal view from Ruth Kettle-Frisby.| Greens4HS2
Watch the edited highlights of the debate on 8th September 2024 at the Green Party conference in Manchester on our motion E01 “Green Rail Strategy for the Midlands and the North”. The post The 2024 conference debate on hs2 appeared first on Greens4HS2.| Greens4HS2
More and more Green Party members are supporting a change in our policy on HS2, particularly as minds are focused on our conference in Manchester – a city stitched-up by the cancellation of the most beneficial part of the scheme: the leg from Birmingham. Our leadership team All three of our leadership team have expressed… Read More »Who’s backing a change in GP Policy on HS2? The post Who’s backing a change in GP Policy on HS2? appeared first on Greens4HS2.| Greens4HS2
The prevailing narrative about HS2 is that it runs counter to Green transport objectives. Several reasons are cited, most commonly that it is energy-intensive, destructive of habitat, aimed at rich travellers, and taking up funds that could be more effectively used for local transport. Of course, we have responses to those criticisms – see our… Read More »HS2 supports Green transport objectives The post HS2 supports Green transport objectives appeared first on Greens4HS2.| Greens4HS2
Greens4HS2 have proposed this motion to the 2024 conference expressing the party’s support, with important conditions, for the building of HS2 in full and Northern Powerhouse Rail to completely re-invigorate rail in the Midlands and the North. The motion was first introduced at the Birmingham conference in Spring 2023, then again at the Autumn 2023… Read More »Our conference motion – E01 Green Rail Strategy for the Midlands and the North The post Our conference motion – E01 Green Ra...| Greens4HS2
Here are the 5 main reasons why you should vote for motion E01 Green Strategy for the Midlands and North. 1 The North wants and needs new railways The north of England hasn’t had a new railway line for decades. The South East, by contrast, has been transformed by new railway lines like HS1 (Eurostar)… Read More »5 reasons why you should vote for E01 The post 5 reasons why you should vote for E01 appeared first on Greens4HS2.| Greens4HS2
It's time for the Green Party's 2024 conference, 6th to 8th September. This time, the party WILL be discussing HS2!| Greens4HS2
As Greens we share with all our party colleagues a huge respect for the natural world and a love of our country’s woodland and the wildlife it supports. We mourn the loss of ancient woodland wherever it happens. HS2 sadly causes the loss of some of this woodland. However, one of the reasons why we’ve… Read More »108 ancient woodlands destroyed?| Greens4HS2
This piece of original research by Mark Brewer MEng shows how the 120-year myth about HS2's carbon payback is exactly that. The post “An analysis of carbon emissions following modal shift on to HS2 services” appeared first on Greens4HS2.| Greens4HS2
All transportation infrastructure projects emit CO2 when being built, but only trains earn that CO2 back, because when people switch from high-CO2 modes like cars and planes, the only question is “how long” until it’s all earned back and we start getting gains. Carbon Brief wrote a brilliant piece showing how it’s helped reduce flights… Read More »The carbon numbers: what is the full potential of HS2?| Greens4HS2