Infrastructure delays pile up
28 January 2019
An independent report from KPMG published last week found that the delayed Crossrail project is eating up cash at the rate of £30 million a week.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
HS2: station plans unveiled
Designs for two new stations which will form a key part of the HS2 rail plan have now been unveiled.
How market madness is throttling broadband
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
Osborne eyes local government pensions, again
12 October 2015
The new National Infrastructure Commission has less to do with planning than with stealing money from workers’ pension funds to do what the government should be doing anyway, and isn’t.
Bumpy roads ahead as ‘new spending’ turns out to be cut
24 December 2014
The nearly £6 billion announced by the government for maintaining local roads over six years is less than half the money needed to deal with the backlog, says the GMB.