Does London get a better deal than the regions?
Londoners get twice as much public spending on transport as those elsewhere in Britain
THIS summer visitors to London will enjoy smart passenger carriages on HS1, Britain’s only high-speed line, which runs from the Channel Tunnel to the capital. They can then travel to the city’s exurbs in new trains thanks to the Thameslink programme, a £6.5bn ($8.5bn) publicly funded project. Next year London’s east-west Elizabeth line, costing £15bn, will open. But if they venture far beyond the capital they will discover infrastructure that looks like it is from another, much poorer country. Many local railways are still operated by noisy and bumpy Pacer trains, converted from bus shells on the cheap in the 1980s.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Northern uproar”
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