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Environmental activists dressed as a white elephant protest outside the Curzon Street Station site in Birmingham, as part of a national day of action against the HS2 high-speed railway as the Bill for the project is laid out in Parliament
ACTIVISTS staged a nationwide day of action against HS2 today as a Bill extending the high-speed rail line to Manchester was presented to Parliament.
Campaigners warned that the Bill, which seeks powers to lay new track and build new stations beyond Crewe, “will sanction immense and irreversible destruction to the environment.”
Protesters gathered in Manchester and Birmingham in the morning, carrying banners reading: “HS2 track of lies,” and chanting: “We don’t want your high-speed greed.”
Actions were also planned in other areas along the proposed HS2 route.
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