Devon to get new railway stations thanks to axed HS2 funding
"Devon’s railway network is expanding under this Conservative government", Huw Merriman proudly announced.
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Pojects to be funded by HS2 money were ‘only illustrative’ – Sunak
The party unveiled a list of transport projects that would be financed by cutting the northern leg of HS2, but apparently they were just "illustrative".
Train driver ‘refuses to depart’ Manchester due to overcrowding in same week Sunak cancels HS2
“The trains going nowhere until passengers leave”
Simon Calder nails why Govt’s decision to scale back HS2 is so bad
Cutting the line short shows the prime minister’s "contempt for the North – while the arguments used to abandon the scheme show contempt for the whole nation"
HS2 alternative plans watered down or dropped a day after being announced
Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said Network North was a ‘back of a fag packet’ plan.
Cancelling HS2 contracts to cost hundreds of millions of pounds
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the cost of pulling out of the agreements will ‘broadly balance out’ with money recovered from selling land.
HS2 replacement plan will lead to a ‘decade of rail replacement buses’
West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin criticised Sunak for his “pure electioneering” after his transport announcements.
Jeremy Hunt’s HS2 comments from 2020 come back to haunt him
The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.
Rishi Sunak slammed by former PMs over decision to axe HS2 northern leg
"This doesn’t work for north-to-south, it doesn’t work east-to-west, and what we’re seeing in this plan is a decade of rail replacement buses with electrification."