FASTER train links could be on the cards for Bradford as Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said East-West connectivity must be an early priority for the next parliament across the North.
Mr Balls said huge rail improvements would be built at the same time the £2 billion Crossrail 2 Project in London was progressing.
The Chancellor pledged to speed ahead with upgrading rail links across the Pennines which were original plans put forward by the Transport for the North group, if his party won in the election.
The strategy, which includes ten proposed new and upgraded connections and will cost £77bn, were unveiled last month.
Mr Balls said: “There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be done at the same time as Crossrail 2 as well as moving ahead with the first stage of HS2.It doesn’t need to be the North first or the South first, one shouldn’t take priority over the over. I want to move ahead with all of them and get on with it.”
The T&A revealed recently that the department for transport (DfT) study highlighted how rail links to Bradford fell short of its position as the tenth largest city in the UK.
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