Revised plans focus on upgrades. Government, cuts back North Rail

[arista]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10216069/Boris-accused-breaking-Levelling-pledge-rail-plan-unveiled.html

[Off the rails? PM faces fresh Tory meltdown
as furious MPs accuse him of broken vows
and causing 'generations' of pain
by downgrading flagship plans
for 'Levelling Up' rail in North,
sleaze storm rages on - and more polls show
scale of the damage]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59334043


https://news.sky.com/story/eastern-leg-of-hs2-to-leeds-scrapped-transport-secretary-confirms-12471454



[The government has scrapped the
Leeds leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line
as part of a package that ministers promise
will transform services.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told
the Commons the overhaul
will bring faster journeys
up to 10 years earlier than planned.

HS2 trains were to run on a new
East Midlands-Leeds high speed line,
but will now run on existing routes.

Critics accused Mr Shapps of breaking
investment promises.

Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon
said it was "the betrayal of trust,
the betrayal of promises and
the betrayal of investment the
north of England and the Midlands deserve".]



Yes No Money
for North Rail


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[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/18/14/50659863-10216069-image-a-22_1637246113859.jpg
today)
flatly denied that he had broken promises
by not going ahead with the lines connecting Leeds]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10216069/Boris-accused-breaking-Levelling-pledge-rail-plan-unveiled.html

If Only the Conservatives
told the truth


It Now Over Cost's 3 times as much
No Money for the North Promised Deal.



Maybe the Labour Party will do it
IF they win the next General Election in
booked as Thursday 2nd of May 2024

[arista]

Ch4HDnews Live in Leeds

And all the North Towns.

[Beso]

Something had to give after the cost of covid.

[Oliver_W]

A slightly faster train service isn't worth the cost of the countryside and forestry it would destroy.

[arista]

Something had to give after the cost of covid.



Thats a Very Clever
Comment.

[joeysteele]

So much for levelling up.

The funds are available for the more Southern end but not the Northern.

There'll be all and any kind of excuses made for this however, no doubt about that.

[arista]

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[arista]

Some MP's are Happy no new Line HS3
as would rip up homes.

Those homes that were vacated
stay empty in case it gets built, much later.

The trouble with The Labour Party
is they are just a split on what to do.

Starmer could come out and say after the Election
HS3 gets built

But HE IS NOT

[smudgie]

Plenty of improvements going on here up north.:shrug:
Railway stations upgraded.
As long as there is a direct link from Darlington to London for all those new jobs that have been transferred up here.

[arista]

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