Plan is off track
What he fails to define is exactly how the present situation prevents this happening, and how much faster rail travel alone will correct the perceived lack of progress towards the ultimate prize of a “northern hub” of cities to rival London.
I’ve rarely read such waffle, even from pompous politicians, as Osborne’s description of businesses wanting to form clusters where they can “learn from and spark off each other”. They do that from opposite ends of the world nowadays.
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Hide AdLooking at the country as a whole, instead of automatically putting London first as always, it is glaringly obvious that the proposed new northern railway should have been HS1; but it still wouldn’t make sense.
Robert Dow
Ormiston Road
Tranent, East Lothian