High-speed north - building a trans- pennine mega-city

摘要

Two weeks after assuming chairmanship of HS2, in March 2014, Sir David Higgins said in Manchester: ' What my personal experience reflects is the two main transport challenges we face as a country: the lack of capacity, particularly but not exclusively south of Birmingham; and the poor connectivity in the North, not just between the region and London, but also east-west between Liverpool and Manchester, Manchester and Leeds, Leeds and Hull. Those challenges have direct consequences, not just for the economy as a whole, but for people's daily experience and aspirations.'