The blighted communities have little to show for six years of disruption … except a mile-long hole in the ground
Six years after turning the first spade at Euston station, it’s hard for local people to see HS2 as anything other than levelling down.
Hundreds of homes have been demolished. A school, a pub and other businesses have been knocked down or starved of customers. Families have been separated. Now the project has been put on hold and the builders are moving out, leaving a mile-long hole.
