Extract from end of day adjournment debate on Transport for the North: Funding - Mar 17
Thursday, 18 March 2021 08:25
Dame Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North) (Lab):...When I am in
London, I frequently pass the £500 million shiny new Crossrail
station at Canary Wharf, built with private investment and complete
with its own lush roof garden. The site is surrounded by all the
other fruits of 40 years of ongoing London docklands regeneration
work from both public and private investment. There cannot be a
greater contrast than with my own battle over the past three years
to get the botched, on-the-cheap...Request free trial
(Kingston upon Hull North) (Lab):...When I am in
London, I frequently pass the £500 million shiny new Crossrail
station at Canary Wharf, built with private investment and complete
with its own lush roof garden. The site is surrounded by all the
other fruits of 40 years of ongoing London docklands regeneration
work from both public and private investment. There cannot be a
greater contrast than with my own battle over the past three years
to get the botched, on-the-cheap waiting room and toilet
improvements at Hull’s Paragon station, managed by Transpennine which unfortunately seems
not to even be able to sort that out. If we really are to be one
nation, levelled up and facing the future, those two symbolic
locations must stop being such a tale of two cities. That is why
Transport for the North needs to be properly funded...
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