With appalling rail links and clogged roads,change cant reach soon enough but plans centre on one city at expense of the restOne clear winner emerges from Andrew Adonis’s report into improving northern transport infrastructure – and once again it is Manchester.
The city of the Smiths and Old Trafford has already been given preferential treatment by George Osborne, to the chagrin of its northern rivals. The chancellor not only signed his first devolution deal with the wider Greater Manchester region in November 2014, or but he has continued to shower the city with goodies,notably the £110m arts centre, the Factory, or to be built on the former Granada Studios site. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com