European Commission TEN-T Programme
By Andrew Bodman with assistance from Madeleine Wahlberg The European Commission wants to create a unified transport network (roads, railways, airports and canals) across Europe. The “Core” network...
View ArticleWhat’s good enough for Richmond… is good enough for Offchurch
This is a guest article by Madeleine Wahlberg. Justine Greening has submitted her objections to the Thames Tunnel development which affects her constituents. She uses arguments to make her case which...
View ArticleAt the 2nd European Forum against “les Grands Projets Inutiles Imposés”
Madeleine Wahlberg is at the 2nd European Forum Against “les Grands Projets Inutiles Imposés”. She writes from Nantes: What has been going on: The meeting has been called by the European group against...
View ArticleAnother dispatch from Nantes
This is a guest article by Madeleine Wahlberg, who is Nantes for the 2nd European Forum Against “les Grands Projets Inutiles Imposés” (‘Useless Imposed Mega-Projects’) Monday Where to begin? Well the...
View ArticleWhen firecrackers are called bombs
This is a guest post by Madeleine Wahlberg, who recently attended the 2nd European Forum against “useless imposed Mega-projects” Two days ago Reuters put out a release titled “Bomb injures senior...
View ArticleViolence in Nantes and four farces of European transport megaprojects
This is a guest post by Madeleine Wahlberg. Previous blogs on this site over the last 2 years have noted that despite MPs and others saying that everyone in mainland Europe is really happy with HSR,...
View ArticleMore ‘nasties’ in Nantes – and why it matters to us
This is a guest post by Madeleine Wahlberg. The violent evictions continue as people – just like us – oppose the Nantes airport development. You can read the previous blog here:...
View ArticleBirchmoor Activity centre on Y route announcement day
Video by Ian Reed, showing what was going on at the Birchmoor Activity Centre on the day of the Y route announcement. Many thanks to Angela Baines and Andrew Bodman who organised the volunteers and...
View ArticleFirst Reports from Stop HS2 convention
Thank you to everyone who came to the Stop HS2 convention yesterday: it was an enjoyable and informative day. In particular, thank you to all the people involved in organising it and in giving...
View ArticleTranslations of le Parisien articles
Following on from Madeleine Wahlberg’s article earlier this week, Martha de Monclin has provided us with summary translations of the two le Parisean articles. (Martha warns that they are not...
View ArticleJust what you can expect from HS2 Ltd
By Madeleine Wahlberg Yesterday I had an unannounced visitor at the door. You might think the 1st of August had marked the start of silly season, but this is HS2 Ltd acting normally. I asked to see...
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