Local leaders ask government to look at ways to build full £39bn Northern Powerhouse Rail line

By Tom Lowe2021-12-01T06:00:00

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Open letter from Transport for the North follows decision to downgrade Liverpool to Leeds route

Northern transport leaders have written to the government asking to explore funding options that would allow the Northern Powerhouse rail scheme to be built in full.

The offer came in an open letter from Transport for the North (TfN) interim chair Louise Gittins in which she expressed the group’s “disappointment and dismay” at the government’s decision to downgrade spending on the route from £31bn to £23bn.

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