The company designing the HS2 high speed rail project has decided to scrap plans to demolish some 18 bridges for the west London section of the scheme and build a tunnel instead.
Campaigners had warned that the original plans would have caused five years of traffic havoc. The proposals would have meant demolishing the Hangar Lane gyratory as well as 17 other bridges.
HS2 now plans to build an eight-mile tunnel along the ‘Northolt corridor’ running underground between Old Oak Common and West Ruislip. It will be the longest tunnel on the £33bn HS2 link from Euston to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.
Last month HS2 announced it was scaling back plans to demolish and rebuild Euston Station where the new rail link will terminate.
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