High Speed 2 Railway Line: Tunnels
(asked on 7th June 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received any formal requests to undertake a cost and construction assessment of the alternative proposal to build a short-mined tunnel at Wendover on HS2 Phase One.
This question was answered on 21st June 2021
The Department for Transport has received successive requests to assess the Wendover short-mined tunnel proposal. The Department considered the proposal on the basis of assessments conducted by HS2 Ltd in 2017 and by independent consultants in 2018.