£235m funding for capital’s roads is possible only because of investment that comes from scrapping northern leg of HS2

“It’s like a bad Christmas cracker joke,” said one northern leader in England as the government announced its latest Network North transport project: fixing potholes in London.

The punchline, said Kim McGuinness, Labour’s candidate to be the mayor of north-east England, isn’t even funny. It’s “Tories celebrating widening the widening north/south divide”.

There was anger and exasperation on Wednesday after the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed funding “for each London borough to ensure millions of road users enjoy smoother and safer journeys”.

The £235m of London pothole money was possible only because of £8.3bn of extra investment which came from scrapping HS2.

  • DrCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    This has to be a joke right? They’ve decided “fuck it, we’re going to lose anyway” and are now just seeing how much nonsense the public will take.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I’d say the best part of a decade, and who can blame them, we keep voting for them like the absolute clown country we are

    • geophysicistEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      The joke here is how apparently it costs a quarter of a billion pounds to fill in potholes

      How??