{"id":435118,"date":"2026-05-19T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:29:10","slug":"hs2-railway-could-cost-up-to-102-7bn-and-may-not-open-until-2039-transport-secretary-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435118\/","title":{"rendered":"HS2: Railway could cost up to \u00a3102.7bn and may not open until 2039, transport secretary says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disruption for Euston locals set to continue for another decadepublished at 14:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:41 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a7d56fed-d33e-4014-a2dd-3d0d4fe70887.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Tom Edwards<br \/>Transport Correspondent, BBC London<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What has happened in Euston in central London has been called an embarrassment and a lesson in how not to do things. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The area has seen hundreds of homes demolished, the most on the whole HS2 project. And the project has ruined lives. Businesses and pubs were also destroyed; it was extremely distressing for those impacted by it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the last seven years the area has been blighted by a project with no clear direction. The site cuts the area in half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news that it won&#8217;t now open until 2040 at the earliest will be met with anger, resignation, and despair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Businesses have already suffered, some have already moved on and this further delay won&#8217;t help. Plans to redevelop the whole area are yet to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the moment, locals are living next to a building site and disruption and that looks set to continue for another decade. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view of work at Euston station\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9d91c011-9cf0-465e-ba58-67258e2a1a29.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work has been under way at Euston for several years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disruption for Euston locals set to continue for another decadepublished at 14:41 BST 14:41 BST Tom EdwardsTransport Correspondent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-435118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}