SO now we know. The same set of announcements that denied Greater Manchester funding for the much-needed extension of Metrolink also committed the Government, in principle, to spending about £10 billion on building Cross-rail - a project to link conventional railways east-west across central London.
Where do civil servants live? In the South-east. Where do most of the Government live? In the South-east. Where does middle England live? In the South-east. So let's be nice to middle England, and let the North West go hang! Nothing new there then.
Peter Johnston,
Kendal Road,
Bolton
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