User:Mujinga/UpdateHS2

OVERALL

 * https://rebellion.earth/2020/06/17/20-27-june-extinction-rebellion-and-local-communities-to-walk-125m-along-hs2-route-to-say-we-were-never-asked/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk/hs2

Woodland Trust

 * https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre/2020/03/hs2-digging-up-ancient-woodland/
 * https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre/2020/02/hs2-poison-arrow-for-environment/
 * https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/hs2-rail-link/
 * https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/hs2-decimate-buckinghamshires-ancient-woodlands-say-woodland-trust-90569

Opposition to construction
After works began at various places, protest camps were set up by people wanting to stop the destruction of ancient woodlands.

In June 2020, Extinction Rebellion and other groups organised the "Rebel Trail", a protest march of 125 miles from Birmingham to London which stopped at camps in Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and London.

Denham

 * Colne Valley Regional Park


 * A protest camp was established at Harvil Road in the Colne Valley nature reserve in 2017, by activists intending to protect the wildlife habitats of bats and owls. There were also concerns that a fresh water aquifer would be affected by HS2 construction works and this would impact London's water supply. The camp was populated by individuals including members of the [[Green Party and [[Extinction Rebellion. In January 2020, HS2 bailliffs began to evict the site after HS2 exercised the right to compulsory purchase the land from Hillingdon council, which had not been prepared to sell the land otherwise. A prosecution of two activists accused of aggravated trespass had previously collapsed in 2019 when HS2 was unable to prove it owned the land the activists were allegedly trespassing upon. From March 2020, another site was squatted in the Colne Valley which planned to block construction.
 * HS2 and Hillingdon council both moved to get separate [[Injunctions in English law|injunctions allowing them to remove the [[squatters.
 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/20/anti-hs2-protesters-begin-125-mile-walk-along-proposed-route
 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/13/rise-in-injunctions-against-hs2-protesters
 * https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/tensions-breaking-point-west-london-18220085
 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/04/hs2-protesters-block-sites-and-call-for-money-to-go-to-nhs-coronavirus
 * harvil tree protectors injured

Midlands
In the West Midlands, an injunction was brought by HS2 to prevent campaigners accessign woods - source

BUCKS

 * https://www.mix96.co.uk/vp/news/related-articles/group/-/17/bd4c06/hs2/
 * http://stophs2.org/news/18968-bentonite-factory-plans-prompt-5th-hs2-protection-camp-wendover-active-resistance-founded
 * JONES HILL
 * Another camp was set up in March 2020 at Jones' Hill Wood, between Aylesbury and Wendover in Buckinghamshire to preserve a wood which inspired Roald Dahl to write Fantastic Mr Fox In May 2020, a group called HS2 Rebellion shut down over twenty construction sites along the planned path of HS2, saying that the money spent on the railway would be better given to the NHS in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 * https://www.mix96.co.uk/news/local/3056153/anti-hs2-campaigners-set-up-another-camp-in-bucks/
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Speed_2&oldid=833396790

Groups

 * National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
 * https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8114604/National-Trust-anger-over-High-Speed-2-railway.html
 * https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/civils/hs2-national-police-group-established-secure-project-23-04-2019/
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_support_and_opposition_to_High_Speed_2
 * AGHAST https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/high-speed-rail-link-protesters-3920915
 * StopHS2 - http://stophs2.org/about. After the government confirmed it would go ahead with HS2 in early 2020, Stop HS2 chair Penny Gaines said HS2 was "not fit to run a model railway".
 * https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/transport/boris-big-blunder-stop-hs2-speaks-out-over-confirmation-high-speed-railway-through-banburyshire-1430712
 * Wildlife Trusts
 * https://www.itv.com/news/2020-01-15/wildlife-trusts-claims-hs2-will-destroy-huge-swathes-of-natural-habitat
 * CPRE
 * Berkeley
 * GALE|IF0504192169
 * GALE|LZSJMH148469608
 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-and-the-stop-hs2-campaign-team-up-in-attempt-to-make-boris-lose-his-seat-q0jtdmml0
 * The Selbourne Society voiced its concern about the proxomity of HS2 to Perivale Wood, a Local Nature Reserve in Ealing.
 * Boris Johnson said "I have visited Ruislip twice in the last year to voice my disapproval of the scheme"
 * https://www.hillingdonconservatives.org/stop-hs2
 * green / brexit
 * https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/general-election-where-parties-stand-on-hs2-heathrow-and-net-zero-goal-31-10-2019/
 * cheryl gillan
 * https://www.cherylgillan.co.uk/content/high-speed-2
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-16578416
 * https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/dame-cheryl-gillan-mp-visits-great-missenden-hs2-protesters-821777
 * https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cheryl-gillan/
 * https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?house=commons%2Clords&max=20&member=18&page=1&questiontype=AllQuestions
 * Carillion
 * https://developmentfinancetoday.co.uk/article-desc-6142_how-will-the-liquidation-of-carillion-affect-the-hs2-scheme
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/carillion-collapse-hs2-high-speed-2-rail-transport-infrastructure-construction-contracts-a8160061.html

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 * Added to talk, provoked a good discussion, which seems now to have gone stale
 * I've been adding some updates to the article today and I wanted to make some more major suggestions for improving the article as a whole which would need discussion here first before implementing. Overall I would say the article needs some work, as is to be expected with a megaproject that is going on for years, information can easily become outdated or even wrong. I am a bit concerned by the "Proposed service pattern" section, it seems a bit WP:CRYSTALBALL and it's unreferenced. "Journey times" has some references from 2012, which are probably quite outdated now. The lead is really long and doesn't summarise everything in the article, MOS:LEADLENGTH suggests maximum four paragraphs and it seems to have some rather minor details in it, what are currently paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 could be pruned pretty heavily I would say. I also find the section ordering overall a bit strange, for example there obviously should be a section for the Oakervee Review but shoehorning it in at the top seems questionable. I hope no-one takes this personally, an article can become bloated over time and that's no-one's fault, but as someone reading it with fresh eyes, these are some things I noticed today.
 * 86.19.244.96
 * Hi 86.19.244.96 and welcome to wikipedia! I've reverted your edits to HS2 since you were adding information from the HS2 Limited media centre and it is much better to use reliable secondary sources. For some of this at least it's not hard, for example I added the news about Curzon Street as reported by architectsjournal.co.uk. When you said you corrected a mistake on the date, this was not correct according to the secondary source. By the way, if you have a Conflict of interest here that's not necessarily a problem, but you would be advised to mention it at Talk:High Speed 2. Cheers and happy editing!
 * I've been thinking more about to improve the page.
 * The lead is now down to 4 paragraphs, which is a suitable length. I think the first paragraph (what HS2 is) and the fourth paragraph (costs, Oakervee and protests) are ok, but two and three really need some work. They shoudl be summarising the rest of the article and they are not doing that. By the way I don't consider references to be needed in the lead unless supporting extraordinary claims or direct quotes, because everything in the lead should be referenced in the article below. It should be a quick summary of the article contents.
 * Another thing perhaps is how people see the page, since perhaps we see it in very different ways. HS2 refers to the trainline first and foremost but also to the company building it, HS2 Limited, and also the social and political issue around it. People coming to this article want information on all three of these things and updates on the current situation. We aren't a news source but we should take care to not present predictions which then age badly. Therefore the article still needs a lot of work in my opinion.
 * Another thing is to use reliable secondary sources if possible.
 * Another thing is to use reliable secondary sources if possible.

Extra notes

 * https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2020-01-28/campaigners-won-t-budge-as-they-set-up-camp-in-proposed-hs2-pathway/
 * https://theecologist.org/2020/jul/09/struggle-stop-hs2
 * http://www.hs2amersham.org.uk/index.html?News/News.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20190524173654/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/9007642/Tory-MPs-face-high-speed-rail-backlash.html

To do

 * intro to reflect article
 * Journey times
 * Carillion!
 * china https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51512831
 * https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/20/hs2-cost-106000000000-northern-part-paused-12086731/

Costs

 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/03/at-307m-per-mile-of-track-can-the-cost-of-hs2-be-justified
 * https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/high-speed-2-costs#:~:text=Government%20estimates&text=The%20latest%20estimate%20from%20HS2,increases%20in%20economy%2Dwide%20prices.
 * https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldeconaf/134/13404.htm
 * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/05/hs2-parliament-misled-about-true-cost-says-labour-peer
 * https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/hs2-train-route-budget-spend-a4359426.html

HS2 review

 * https://www.gregsmith.co.uk/news/statement-buckinghamshire-mps-following-transport-departments-notice-proceed-construction
 * https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/18253764.buckingham-mp-greg-smith-i-share-anger-frustration-hs2-decision/
 * https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/21/dozens-mps-including-new-northern-representatives-sign-joint/
 * https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/yorkshire-mps-sign-letter-prime-minister-urging-him-scrap-hs2-1745351

Kirby

 * http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/HS2/kirby-resigns-as-hs2-chief-executive-to-join-rolls-royce
 * https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/civils/contracts-civils/hs2-redundancy-scandal-mp-asks-if-former-ceos-actions-were-fraudulent-31-10-2017/
 * https://www.building.co.uk/news/former-hs2-boss-joins-management-consultants/5095456.article
 * https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/10/11/conflict-interest-row-ex-hs2-executives-sign-consultancy-advising/

more

 * http://camdennewjournal.com/article/you-thought-lockdown-was-hard-try-it-next-to-a-noisy-dusty-building-site-full-of-rats
 * https://www.itv.com/news/london/2020-07-28/harefield-couple-lose-seven-year-battle-to-save-their-dream-home-from-hs2-bulldozers
 * https://www.itv.com/news/2020-07-13/delivery-of-hs2-given-red-warning-rating-by-government-experts
 * Almost resigned tory in telegraph
 * chief exec highest paid govt official in times
 * inisde denham times-

court cases

 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-53565289

Extra

 * T22
 * R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport