HS2: announced transport projects were just ‘examples’, says minister
by Ben Quinn Political Correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6FD4M)
Documents detailing projects to be funded with savings from scrapping HS2 deleted from government website
Government documents that were abruptly deleted after appearing online with announcements of new transport projects were just giving examples" of what savings from the scrapping of HS2's northern leg could be spent on, a minister has claimed.
The documents detailed an extra 100m of funding for a mass transit underground" project in Bristol. Mention of plans to invest 36bn in projects around the north and Midlands, including re-opening Transport North East's Leamside line, were also removed from the government's website.
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