THE Prime Minister has officially scrapped the Manchester leg of HS2 weeks of speculation.
projects and roads in the North of England and the Midlands, which he claimed would better serve the needs of people in those areas.
“But I also know we can work together to ensure a faster, stronger spine, quicker trains and more capacity between Birmingham and Manchester.”Other cash will be spent on improving the A75 to “connect our union”, said Sunak. “An alternative which in place of one delayed and overrunning project will now begin hundreds upon hundreds of new projects, large and small, road and rail, bus and train covering the whole country that will be delivered faster, that will see every region receiving more investment than they would have done.
“We will instead create a new Euston development zone building thousands of new homes for the next generation of homeowners, new business opportunities and a station that delivers the capacity we need.
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