No funding for Crossrail 2 until there is equal funding for Northern transport

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What the petition asks

Until there is equal per capita funding for transport schemes in the north there should be no more funding for huge schemes in London like Crossrail2.

"HS3" is very small scale, and these plans still concentrate spending in the capital while there are only very minor upgrades for the north.

There is a huge imbalance in infrastructure spending between North and South, sucking economic activity away from the north. London gets 24 times as much spent on infrastructure per resident than north-east England.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/aug/07/london-gets-24-times-as-much-infrastructure-north-east-england

Liverpool has offered to pay £2bn towards the £3bn cost of high speed rail. The government can't find £1bn left for that but has £27-32bn to spend on more for London.

Timeline

17 Mar 2016	Petition opened for signatures
17 Sep 2016	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 175

Status Closed

Opened 17 Mar 2016

Closed 17 Sep 2016

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