Delays in building the final stretch of the high-speed railway HS2 shows the government “does not know what it is trying to achieve” with the “floundering” station, a committee of MPs has warned.
In a report published on Friday, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Commons urged the Department for Transport (DfT) to “finally establish” its expectations for the station.
HS2 Ltd— the government-owned company responsible for building the high-speed railway—first proposed an 11-platform design for Euston in 2015, to be built in two phases.
Following the recommendations of the Oakervee Review in 2020, the DfT instructed HS2 Ltd to change to a ten-platform, single-stage design in an attempt to make it simpler and cheaper….