The Manchester mayor said the government will create a 'north-south chasm' if HS2 stops at Birmingham.
, Burnham furiously said: “Why is it that people in the north are always forced to choose - you can have this or you can have that, but you can’t have everything?
“London never has to choose between a north-south line or an east-west line and good public transport within the city.“This is the parliament who said they would level us up. If they leave a situation where the southern half of the country is connected by modern high speed lines and the north of England is left with Victorian infrastructure, that is a recipe for the north-south divide to become a north-south chasm.
"Why is it that people in the north are always forced to choose? Why are we always treated as second-class citizens when it comes to transport?" Mayor of Greater Manchester
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