Integrated Rail Plan focuses on journey times not capacity
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps unveiled the long awaited Integrated Rail Plan For The North and Midlands on November 18, claiming the revised schemes will bring passenger benefits 10 years sooner than previously.
The IRP sets out a long-term pipeline of work that the Government says “Helps our largest cities, but it also helps smaller places. It protects and improves services on the existing lines. And nor does it neglect the shorter-distance services which people use every day.”
Costed at £96bn the IRP is made up of £54bn of spending on rail and local transport in the Midlands and North, as well as the £42bn already allocated for HS2 Phases 1 and 2a between London,
