Government planning ‘to put HS2 on stilts through Manchester’
Swathes of central Manchester could be blighted by viaducts looming over the homes of thousands of people because the government has refused to fund an underground station in the city centre, Andy Burnham has warned.
This week the government said it would build a new surface station in Manchester for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, a partly new line to Leeds via Huddersfield. It will be situated next door to the existing Piccadilly station, which does not have platforms long enough to accommodate HS2’s 400-metre trains.
Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, had asked the government for a multistorey interchange with underground platforms, which would allow trains to travel through the station.
This was refused, with the government saying
Read more on theguardian.com
