{"id":4610,"date":"2026-05-18T02:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/hs2-failings-blamed-on-high-speed-focus-and-political-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:15:18","slug":"hs2-failings-blamed-on-high-speed-focus-and-political-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/hs2-failings-blamed-on-high-speed-focus-and-political-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure <\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/i4pMuw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">As part of efforts to get the project back on track, HS2 Ltd has previously said it would slow or pause work such as the line towards Handsacre, so it could focus spend on areas which had fallen behind; notably the central section across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Published at Sun, 17 May 2026 23:07:57 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure As part of efforts to get the project back on track, HS2 Ltd has previously said it would slow or pause work such as the line towards Handsacre, so it could focus spend on areas which had fallen behind; notably the central section across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/hs2-failings-blamed-on-high-speed-focus-and-political-pressure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}