🗣 'Hopes of HS2 ever reaching Yorkshire appear increasingly remote given that project is also being sized up for cuts'
project – promised as part of the 2019 Conservative manifesto, then dramatically watered down by last year’s Integrated Rail Plan before then being re-promised by Liz Truss – is reportedly at major risk.ever reaching Yorkshire appear increasingly remote given that project is also being sized up for cuts and a study of how to connect its trains to Leeds is yet to even begin.
But as business leaders rightly point out, these are investments that if given the go-ahead will pay dividends for decades to come These projects are not about allowing for the occasional fast train to London – it is about increasing network capacity and reliability and engineering a fully integrated public transport network that should be a minimum expectation for the North.
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