Boris Johnson should prioritise a new Transpennine railway line before the Manchester section of HS2, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said.
Why not Liverpool to Hull
There's 3 lines separating manchester to Leeds and none are electrified and all 3 are a ramshackle mess. We need to sort out 2 of them and make them quicker infrastructure is there
Didn't take long for Hull to be dropped from the narrative.
Should go as far as York to connect to East coast main line get some proper connections to further parts of NE
When the 4 carriage train chugs into Huddersfield on its way from Leeds to Manchester everybody thinks wouldn’t it be great if it had 8 carriages. This would double capacity overnight. Half these trains then go on to Warrington and Liverpool. Tactical solutions are needed too!
HS2 is about the corporate house builders getting government subsidies to build sub standard, over priced developments of flatlets, around commuter station locations. With the bailout banks selling debt, leveraged by tax payer subsided, help-to-buy loans. On top of Quadrillion.
And just forget about Sheffield in all this then?
The thought of northerners connecting has never been a sexy notion in Westminster. A bit like feeding rats
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