Greater Manchester gets £16million boost for buses from HS2 savings with more to come
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGreater Manchester will get an extra £16m for buses from the government next year. The city-region received £94.8m to spend over three years from the same pot of funding, but the cash which has helped subsidise bus fares is still set to run out in 2025, as it stands.
The government says the new funding has come from the savings made by scrapping the new high-speed railway line to Manchester.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the Northern leg of HS2 would be cancelled at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester earlier this month, promising that 'every penny' of the £36bn saved would be spent on smaller transport projects.
Setting out plans for 'Network North' in his party conference speech on Wednesday (October 4), he listed a series schemes - some of which had already been announced before - that would benefit from the HS2 funding when he .
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