£2bn boost to transform Northern England’s ‘broken transport’ system
£2bn boost to transform Northern England’s ‘broken transport’ system
Posted by jamie050
£2bn boost to transform Northern England’s ‘broken transport’ system
£2bn boost to transform Northern England’s ‘broken transport’ system
Posted by jamie050
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They all say that once they get into power. In reality the north will get 10% of the two billion and the rest will be diverted to the southeast. lol
Losing the billions HS2 to be filled in with £2bn to be spent on roads, buses, and trams.
£9bn tunnel for the South?
I had low expectations but wow.
The south gets £8 billion for one tunnel, the north gets £2billion to fix everything? Sheffield and Manchester need a motorway, Leeds needs mass transit and Bradford needs connecting!
Not even sure £2 billion will get you much because everything needs fixing in the north. Also it’s not much money compared to the £9 billion the south east is getting on a tunnel
I just knew this thread was going to be full of people whingeing. Think I need to take a break from this sub as even when a positive news is posted, it’s nothing but comments shitting all over it.
I think it’s great that northern railways are finally getting some decent funding.
Just finish HS2. The original plan. Modernise the damn railways in this crumbling country.
What’s the point? Everyone north of the Trent could get the Venice Simplon Orient Express with free beer, and they would still spend the whole journey moaning that someone in Birmingham once caught a bus which totally proves everything is biased towards London.
The north gets the complete replacement of the Merseyrail and Tyne & Wear Metro fleets with custom-made trains, electrification, the TransPennine Route Upgrade, so many new trains that the civil service had to specifically request a government order to do something which didn’t make economic sense, tram extensions, a new tunnel in the south to carry their freight up north, etc etc. While London, with more people than Scotland and Wales combined, has knackered trams and the oldest trains in the country, and people moan about plans for a tunnel to take lorries carrying northern goods off its congested roads.
Doesn’t even touch the sides unfortunately.
Trafford Park tram line in Manchester cost £350 million… £2bn for all modes of transport across the North after 30 years of underinvestment? Yay.
£9billion already spent on planning a London Thames road tunnel yet to be built.
It’s nice of the London lords to sweep a couple of scraps off the table to the Northern plebs.
This is really bad optics after announcing several times more than this for one single tunnel in London though.
I wonder if it will even stay in the north, or if they’ll find potholes in Watford that need filling, like last time there was a vaguely attributed “northern infrastructure” money pot allocated.
All the transformations achieve are more expensive ways to get frustrated.
They really need to get the mass transit project going in West Yorkshire. It’s rubbish that the only public transport is buses. So many old abandoned rail lines which can be converted to tram lines.
Can’t wait for that to be spent and the north end up with a half finished tram system or maybe a new bus route.
Oh and that £2b will be spent on a job that should cost 500m at most.