He was speaking at a press conference after Rishi Sunak's speech
Andy Burnham says the decision to cancel Manchester’s HS2 link means the city is only ‘temporarily derailed’.
Although he agreed that there were some positive moves from the government, the Mayor argued the Network North plan failed to address the ‘main transport problem in the north of England’, namely ‘the bottlenecks in Manchester and Leeds with regards to rail capacity and strained lines between the two’.
“There’s plenty to play for, here. While we’re temporarily derailed, we are never permanently derailed.”
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