The right answer is to have a plan that works for the nation and not one which is a thinly veiled excuse to increase the London commuter belt.
The North is crying out for development, but is treated like the undesirable step-child. Rinse and repeat for anywhere that isn’t essential to London or the Home Counties.
How about building a fucking railway instead of trying this private sector incentive corruption dance for a decade or two.
I doubt they ever really intended for it to reach that far in the first place. If they cared about the north then they could have invested in the local train services first and then linked an improved system to London at a later date. Encouraging local transport should come first as more people will travel along local routes than national routes, especially as WFH becomes more common. HS2 was a great way to hook the north into thinking it would benefit them and not just Londoners.
Funny how Richard Leese gets away with having handed the Tories such a long-term pr win, without having managed to get anything for Manchester that it actually needs in return.
He’s great at winning local elections in Manchester, and selling off the city to wealthy entrepreneurs, but he does fuck all for the ordinary people in the city. We’re getting the same treatment as every area that proudly boasts that it’ll always vote Labour.
If you don’t know the right answer to get HS2 to Leeds, then you may as well reinstate the original plan.
You know, the one that was designed by rail engineers and not NIMBYs in at-risk constituencies.
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The right answer is to have a plan that works for the nation and not one which is a thinly veiled excuse to increase the London commuter belt.
The North is crying out for development, but is treated like the undesirable step-child. Rinse and repeat for anywhere that isn’t essential to London or the Home Counties.
How about building a fucking railway instead of trying this private sector incentive corruption dance for a decade or two.
I doubt they ever really intended for it to reach that far in the first place. If they cared about the north then they could have invested in the local train services first and then linked an improved system to London at a later date. Encouraging local transport should come first as more people will travel along local routes than national routes, especially as WFH becomes more common. HS2 was a great way to hook the north into thinking it would benefit them and not just Londoners.
Funny how Richard Leese gets away with having handed the Tories such a long-term pr win, without having managed to get anything for Manchester that it actually needs in return.
He’s great at winning local elections in Manchester, and selling off the city to wealthy entrepreneurs, but he does fuck all for the ordinary people in the city. We’re getting the same treatment as every area that proudly boasts that it’ll always vote Labour.
If you don’t know the right answer to get HS2 to Leeds, then you may as well reinstate the original plan.
You know, the one that was designed by rail engineers and not NIMBYs in at-risk constituencies.