the high-speed train project partly canceled

The suspense ended on Wednesday October 4. During the Congress annual of the conservative party British, the PPrime Minister Rishi Sunak announced to give up part At high-speed train project speed connectednott London in the north of the country, baptized “High Speed ​​2”. “I end this long shasga. I cancel THE rest of the project and in its place we we will reinvest each cent, 36 mbillions of books, dyears hundreds of nnew pprojects of transport din the North, the Midlands and tOrt the country”did he declare. The part the most northerly, between Birmingham And Manchester, is cancelede.

The project has accumulated delays

The pproject launched in 2009 aimed has tonotclaver THE north of the countrystill poorly served. But the delays accumulated, and the bill continued to rise. En 2015, the total cost was estimated at nearly 56 mbillions of books. In 2019, he is increased to 98 billions of pounds. If Rishi Sunak has insured that d‘others projects will see the light of day, that probably won’t be enoughablely not to calm down there anger of elected officials from the northern regions, who reprochent de abandon THE more disadvantaged.