I am not sure why they are bothering with the review still. Pay mr Berkley for his time, file the report, such as it is, in the secure paper shredding bin, get some spades in the ground and start building already!
The good thing about the review being delayed is that you get more of the project built and therefore it's less likely to get cancelled.
However given that those opposed to HS2 are now getting less vocal on their posts on Twitter to HS2 Ltd's tweets, I'm not sure that there's going to be such a strong campaign against it.
Interestingly it's more likely to be the haulage industry complaining about the suggestion that HS2 would be good at removing lorries from the roads. Which they wouldn't be doing if they didn't think that it was going to impact them.
Even those who suggest that passenger growth had been falling and therefore we shouldn't be investing in HS2, go quiet when you ask about the numbers of years where there's been less than 1% growth compared to the numbers of years of over 4% growth (both equal distance away from 2.5% growth) as there's been very few at less than 1%. The importance of 1% it's the rate of growth needed until the opening of Phase 2 to be ahead of the predicted growth rate of 2.5% from 2009. Bearing in mind that we've already surpassed the predicted growth rate for the opening of Phase 1 in 2018.