Mayor says link is essential for chancellor’s ‘northern powerhouse’ vision and proposes city covers two thirds of cost to extend planned tall-speed lineLiverpool has offered to pay £2bn towards the cost of HS2 if the government agrees to add a 20-mile stretch of track that would bring the city into the planned tall-speed rail network. With the £55bn railway proposed to directly link Manchester and Leeds to Birmingham and London, Liverpool’s leaders horror the city will be left behind its counterparts in the north.
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Source: theguardian.com