A PACKAGE OF BROKEN PROMISES – MAYOR DAN JARVIS ON GOVERNMENT’S INTEGRATED RAIL PLAN
Published 18 November 2021 at 4:47pm
Responding to the Government’s Integrated Rail Plan, Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis, said:“Today should have been a landmark moment for the North. The moment the Government showed the bravery and courage to fix one of the greatest injustices in our country: fixing the generational and deep inequality between our regions, and the chronic underinvestment in our people and economy.
“Instead, what we heard from the Government was a package of broken promises, reannouncements and spin. Today’s announcement is bad news for passengers, bad news for businesses and bad news for the North. The Prime Minister is fooling no one if he thinks people in South Yorkshire and the North will believe this is a good deal.
“South Yorkshires faces a lot of pain, and precious little gain. It speaks volumes that the main commitment to our region was re-announced improvements to the Hope Valley Line and Midland Mainline – a programme that has already been cancelled twice by Ministers.
“This tells you everything you need to know about this Government. Yet again, they’ve abandoned the transformational changes needed for levelling up in favour of a cut-price, quick fix. The driving concern seems to be PR, not actual progress. People in South Yorkshire and across the North will know his Government has not lived up to their promises. No one in the North should believe a word they say again.”
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