<update – the motion passed! Look out for new posts real soon now explaining what this means for the party. And check the Green Party’s press release> Greens4HS2 have proposed this motion to the 2024 conference expressing the party’s support, with important conditions, for the building of HS2 in full… Read More »Our conference motion – E01 Green Rail Strategy for the Midlands and the North
Trains and well-designed public infrastructure must actively include disabled people from the word go; not as the peripheral afterthoughts characteristic of ‘exemptions’ that disabled people have become so used to.
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”.
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… Read More »Who’s backing a change in GP Policy on HS2?
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… Read More »HS2 supports Green transport objectives
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… Read More »5 reasons why you should vote for E01
The Green Party conference is taking place in Manchester from 6th to 8th September. Top of the agenda of policy motions this time is one we at Greens4HS2 have put forward, calling for a clarification of the party’s position on rail investment for the Midlands and the North. HS2 and… Read More »It’s conference time again – and HS2’s on the agenda!
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… Read More »108 ancient woodlands destroyed?
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… Read More »The carbon numbers: what is the full potential of HS2?
This piece of original research by Mark Brewer MEng shows how the 120-year myth about HS2’s carbon payback is exactly that.