Supply to the Northern Powerhouse was interrupted this week when long-term aspirations and plans collided with reality as one big transport project - HS2 - was replaced with a multitude of smaller ones.
Before this week, leaders in northern England believed the future economic growth of a vast region from South Yorkshire to the Scottish Borders would be underpinned by HS2.
Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said he feared the announcement had set the North back 100 years.
Tracy Brabin, the metro mayor of West Yorkshire, is especially interested in plans for Bradford and the county’s Mass Transit project, which will introduce a tram network.
York-based rail journalist Phil Haigh questions whether the government can be trusted to deliver, having just ditched a project which had been planned for 15 years.
We already know the electrification of the main chunk of the transpennine line is likely to be after that date, meaning everyday life for rail travellers in the North is not likely to change much.
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Supply to the Northern Powerhouse was interrupted this week when long-term aspirations and plans collided with reality as one big transport project - HS2 - was replaced with a multitude of smaller ones.
Before this week, leaders in northern England believed the future economic growth of a vast region from South Yorkshire to the Scottish Borders would be underpinned by HS2.
Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said he feared the announcement had set the North back 100 years.
Tracy Brabin, the metro mayor of West Yorkshire, is especially interested in plans for Bradford and the county’s Mass Transit project, which will introduce a tram network.
York-based rail journalist Phil Haigh questions whether the government can be trusted to deliver, having just ditched a project which had been planned for 15 years.
We already know the electrification of the main chunk of the transpennine line is likely to be after that date, meaning everyday life for rail travellers in the North is not likely to change much.
The original article contains 1,008 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 83%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!