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• Mayors put forward alternatives to HS2 scrapped northern section

  07-02-2024 20:09
  
  Andy Burnham and Andy Street team up with consortium to explore options including lower-speed lineAndy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, and Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, have joined forces on alternative and cheaper plans for the scrapped section of HS2, warning that “to do nothing is not an option”.Burnham and Street shared a stage on Wednesday to put forward three options after the government abandoned the long-promised northern section of the hi
  
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• Government ‘does not understand how HS2 will function as railway’

  07-02-2024 06:00
  
  Parliament’s spending watchdog says cancellation of high-speed line’s northern leg raises ‘urgent questions’The cancellation of the northern leg of HS2 has raised “urgent unanswered questions” and the government does not yet understand how the £67bn high-speed railway will now function, according to a scathing report from parliament’s spending watchdog.The remaining London-Birmingham line will be “very poor value for money”, the public
  
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