MANCHESTER 1

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Originally Posted by Bagso

If we are talking investment in transport infastructure I draw readers attention to the headline in last night's evening standard!

Revealed: £560m plans to overhaul Bank station | Transport | News | London Evening Standard

My goodness are they putting in gold plated urinals !

That's right this is just one underground station and an equivalent indirect taxpayer spend of over half the private money that Manchester is raising to get T2 over the line !

The third busiest station on the underground network handling 52 million passengers a year. Adding a fourth platform, to an underground station whilst keeping all four lines operational is a phenomenally complex operation. Complex = costly. By contrast the work at MAN is relatively simple. Also, to be clear the billion £ price tag is misleading as only £600m of it is actually construction cost.