Short-sighted plans for a HS2 station in Manchester threaten a decade of chaos in the city centre with vast swathes of land becoming a building site.
As the HS2 Crewe-Manchester Bill is today prepared for a second reading in parliament, the Manchester Evening News demands the government does not botch one of the most important transport projects ever to be built in the north of England - by doing it on the cheap.
This is ministers’ one shot to build an underground station at Piccadilly which will future-proof passengers’ desperate need for capacity, reliability and resilience on the rail network. If they don’t make this choice then our city centre faces being scarred by a concrete jungle of viaducts and ugly structures on valuable land.
