After years of waiting Manchester will finally be getting an apparent solution to the rail gridlock that cripples our transport system - but it won't be the fix we were promised.
Instead of adding new platforms at Piccadilly station, two platforms could be removed from Manchester's Oxford Road, as part of a new attempt to deal with the capacity problem that plagues trains coming in and out of the city centre.
It's part of what Rail bosses is calling a 'new approach' to reducing congestion on the region's railways. They say the previous plans for platforms 15 and 16 at Piccadilly which date back more than a decade would be 'hugely expensive' and 'incredibly disruptive' – despite past promises that they would be built in a bid to fix the chaos on our trains.
