The extension of the HS2 rail line from Birmingham to Leeds may never go ahead, a Labour peer has warned. Lord Adonis spoke out after the Government deferred the design on the eastern leg of the project.
He claimed ministers were “delaying indefinitely” the building of the beleaguered HS2 between the Midlands and Yorkshire. The former transport minister wrote: “By deferring decisions on the eastern leg of HS2 while confirming the Manchester leg, the Leeds leg will probably not now go ahead. “The economic and social consequences of today’s HS2 decision are profound. “Metropolitan growth in England north of London will now concentrate on the Birmingham-Manchester corridor.
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