Ref HS2 - so how do you suggest we create the extra paths into S Manc on the railway, or paths on the WCML for more freight from Trafford Park etc?
Good to see you, like many other southern commentators, believe you know more about the northern economies that EVERY chamber of commerce in the north that believe this is a critical scheme for the regions economy - odd that isn't it?
With regards Manc airport, the connection (due to no paths being available) south to Crewe and beyond are very limited - major investment - see HS2 - is needed to create that extra capacity.
Access from Cheshire into the area on the mid-Cheshire line - that would serve the airport via Baguley / Metrolink - is terrible with local politicians and authorities wanting money to electrify and increase capacity on the line - yet it won't happen.
So yes, there is a huge requirement for investment in the north and HS2 shows exactly the type of reaction we get when any such major investment is planned - it's dismissed, whilst people like yourself provide no alternative options to deliver what is needed other than saying you oppose the scheme.