HS2: Sunak's U-turn shakes confidence in his promises
HS2: Sunak's U-turn shakes confidence in his promises
How can the Northern Powerhouse get back on track after this week's HS2 announcement?
BBC fails in its reporting again. A lot of the NEW project are old ones. Some have already been built some were announced years ago. Near half are in the southern half of the country. So he took money from the north yet again.
And he took money from rail schemes to subside some road building projects.
There was confidence in Sunak's promises?
My thoughts exactly. Who the fuck had any confidence in his promises. I mean politicians in general don't earn much trust. But current Tories leading up to a difficult election. Anyone expecting promises to come true is on to much crack.
I didn't have any
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Supply to the Northern Powerhouse was interrupted this week when long-term aspirations and plans collided with reality as one big transport project - HS2 - was replaced with a multitude of smaller ones.
Before this week, leaders in northern England believed the future economic growth of a vast region from South Yorkshire to the Scottish Borders would be underpinned by HS2.
Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said he feared the announcement had set the North back 100 years.
Tracy Brabin, the metro mayor of West Yorkshire, is especially interested in plans for Bradford and the county's Mass Transit project, which will introduce a tram network.
York-based rail journalist Phil Haigh questions whether the government can be trusted to deliver, having just ditched a project which had been planned for 15 years.
We already know the electrification of the main chunk of the transpennine line is likely to be after that date, meaning everyday life for rail travellers in the North is not likely to change much.
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