Still time to get HS2 back on track but we need to rethink our approach to large infrastructure projects - Henri Murison
When the Elizabeth line – a new high-speed railway across London - opened to the public last May, it felt like a genuinely historic day. Hundreds queued for hours in the rain for the chance to be one of the first ever passengers.
It was a rare moment where we celebrated transport for the massive role it plays in our lives, in supporting business and driving the economy, in helping us get to that dream job or visit friends and family.
If you’d googled the project, also known as Crossrail, a few years before then, it would have been a very different story. Transport infrastructure schemes - particularly the complicated ones – are more often than not beset by problems: delays, spiralling costs, unhappy local residents.
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