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If news reports are to be believed it appears the HS2 eastern leg has been given the go-ahead:
HS2 will go to Leeds, promises transport secretary Grant Shapps - Leeds Live (leeds-live.co.uk)
Sounds pretty definitive - doesn't sound as if they are preparing to row back on it.
HS2 will go to Leeds, promises transport secretary Grant Shapps - Leeds Live (leeds-live.co.uk)
... speaking at an online event for the Policy Exchange think tank on Thursday, Mr Shapps said it will be finished in full.
He said: “We are going to complete HS2 and include HS2 on the eastern leg to Leeds.
“And the only question that we have is how to better integrate that with plans which were developed a very long way since HS2 was first dreamt up all those decades ago and that pertains to the Northern Powerhouse Rail.”
He said that while it was originally thought the benefits of HS2 would come by 2040 or 2050, “we think we could bring that forward quite dramatically by building it in a smarter way”.
Sounds pretty definitive - doesn't sound as if they are preparing to row back on it.
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