Following yesterday's announcement by Rishi Sunak that Phase 2 of HS2 will be scrapped, more details have come to light about what the redirected money will see built / upgraded.
The Prime Minister announced the new Network North scheme, improving travel across the North.
Communities will see improved transport infrastructure far sooner thanks to the redirected funds.
£2 billion is set to be spent on a new railway station in Bradford along with a new connection to Manchester.
This ties in with a £2.5bn new Mass Transit system in Leeds and a £12bn investment into the Manchester to Liverpool railway line.
You can read more on the announcement Rishi Sunak made yesterday by clicking here.
The article could almost be Tory Party propaganda. All these proposals were already promised and nothing new. We will believe it when ‘spades are in the ground’. Some of Sunak’s promises were subsequently removed from the Goverment official statement eg The Leamside line. The transport minister was full of excuses and half truths when interviewed on Sunday morning.
Excellent idea! It makes no sense that the Bradford district has very limited transport connections to the borough immediately to the west.
Completely agree, why do the people who plan these schemes not come up with an obvious scheme like joining the two stations in Bradford. Surely the operating savings from running a through route rather than two branch lines would pay for itself, even before the benefits from cross city journeys were added in.
Absolutely pointless unless they connect the 2 Bradford Stations, put the money in skipton colne line.
Don’t trust the Tories; look at how they’ve promised (on Wednesday) to reopen a railway line in County Durham, and just 24 hours later (on Thursday) they’ve removed all mention of it. HS2 (the whole lot of it) is just a total waste of public (taxpayers) money, we already had HS1; the Great Central main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield & Manchester, the last main line built in Britain, in Edwardian times, deliberately built to be as free from gradients and curves as possible, to enable constant high speed express running, yet the government in the 1960’s had it closed down and ripped up as scrap. If anything, that line should be reopened: That could be done at a fraction of the cost of the amount of public money the Conservatives have squandered/wasted on their pet HS2 project, and many people would not have had their homes, and businesses, and land (including farmland) compulsorily purchased.
They just lie and lie and lie and take us for fools. Sadly there are so many out there who voted these liars in.
Most of the announcements for ‘new’ infrastructure projects are old ones, often made several times and then dropped or kicked into the long grass several times.
Not the same but similar to the 60 new hospitals which turns out to be 4 (four). Just because this government says thing doesn’t mean it happens invariably it doesn’t
Maybe skipton to colne line re-opened will change polluting trains its a missing link !! Like all the NHS ppe money that conservatives siphoned away DIRTY tricks by millionaires.
What use is a railway station without trains. Most are cancelled or full the ones that might arrive are a joke. Not enough carriages, polluting, uncomfortable, filthy.
This is NOT new investment. This is re-commitment to a line that originally happening only to be scrapped by Sunak 2 years ago.
Totally agree. We don’t even have a train service to improve anyway.
Unless they are going to connect Foster Square and Exchange together, there really isn’t much point. The current station is adequate for the purpose. They built the bus and train interchange and it was nothing but a white elephant. Bradford are good at wasting money. Any funds would be better spent on opening closed stations like Elland. That stations reopening has been going on for years and still no sign of work commencing
If there’s no money to continue HS2,where’s the money coming from for these upgrades??.
I was thinking most likely tax payers money.
At last Bradford is to get a new intercity station and through urban lines.
It isn’t. It’s never going to happen.
Don’t hold your breath it’s just an announcement that they know will never happen, did you not notice no one will say when this will happen.