Michael Fabricant says they are causing damage with no detail on when they will end.
By Allen CookRoad and footpath closures for HS2 works have created ongoing problems for residents in Lichfield, the prime minister was told.And Lichfield's MP, Michael Fabricant, said at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session that closures were causing damage in the area.create high-speed rail linksLichfield is at the northern point of phase 1 of the project and the southern point of phase 2a. The rail line will eventually travel through a tunnel beneath the A38.
Roads in Fradley and Streethay on the outskirts of the city have been closed for several months after works began.Michael Fabricant raised the topic of HS2 during Prime Minister's Questions "We don't know how long they will go on for," Mr Fabricant, an outspoken critic of HS2, told the House of Commons on Wednesday.
He called HS2 Ltd the most "dysfunctional organisation" he's had to deal with and asked for it to be restructured and, in the long-term, the scheme stopped at the end of phase 1 of the high-speed rail project. The company has previously said it aimed to minimise the impact of its work on local communities "wherever possible".
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