\u00a0 \u00a0 Addressing the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Sunak revealed that the high speed line would no longer be extended to Manchester. He claimed he had taken this decision in response to the scheme\u2019s spiralling costs and changed post-Covid travel patterns. <\/p>\n Instead he said that \u201cevery single penny\u201d of the \u00a336bn saved would be invested in a range of transport schemes, across the entire country.<\/p>\n In the north of England, these investments are improved East-West rail links across the north of England, a \u00a3700m bus funding package, the Leeds tram and the reopening of the Don Valley Line.<\/p>\n Our plan will drive far more growth and opportunity in the north than a faster train to London ever would<\/p>\n \u201cOur plan will drive far more growth and opportunity in the north than a faster train to London ever would,\u201d said Sunak.<\/p>\n In the Midlands, the government is proposing to fund the Midlands Rail Hub and the extension of the Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Norman Baker, from Campaign for Better Transport, commented: \u201cThis ragtag and bobtail selection of bits and pieces \u2013 some of which no doubt have merit \u2013 will not compensate for the hammer blow that has been delivered today. <\/p>\n By cancelling the Northern leg of HS2, the prime minister has taken much needed rail investment and ploughed it into yet more roads.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n The post \u2018Ragtag\u2019 investments cannot replace HS2<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime minister Rishi Sunak announces that high speed line won\u2019t go north of Birmingham \u2013 but \u2018every single penny\u2019 saved will be invested in transport \u00a0The government has scrapped HS2 north of Birmingham \u00a0 After a long and intense period of speculation, prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced that his government is scrapping HS2 north of Birmingham this week. Addressing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The government has scrapped HS2 north of Birmingham<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAfter a long and intense period of speculation, prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced that his government is scrapping HS2 north of Birmingham this week.<\/p>\n
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\nElsewhere, there is a new \u00a32.5bn fund to transform local transport for smaller cities and towns, the extension of England\u2019s \u00a32 bus fare cap until December 2024, and a range of projects for new roads.<\/p>\n
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