{"id":35504,"date":"2013-11-21T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e938309c87dbfaf6d21a1e105d98806e"},"modified":"2013-11-21T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:58:24","slug":"news-story-core-cities-call-on-government-to-maximise-the-potential-of-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35504","title":{"rendered":"News story: Core Cities call on government to maximise the potential of high speed rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This morning (21 November 2013), leaders from the UK\u2019s 10 largest cities outside of London presented a signed declaration to the Prime Minister calling for the fast delivery of <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> and a commitment to bring about the creation of a full high speed network.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corecities.com\/\">Core Cities<\/a> leaders met with the Prime Minister and Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin at Downing Street. They called for the whole of Parliament to unite and press on with the hybrid Bill for Phase One and deliver plans for Phase Two as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>They are clear that upgrades are not enough and that <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> is the only solution. A <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-24700561\">recent assessment of the alternatives to <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr><\/a> found that the upgrades required could lead to up to 14 years of weekend closures and deliver no where near the capacity of <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The Core Cities believe that a national high-speed rail network has the potential to create \u2018high speed cities\u2019 and is the only option to reshape and rebuild the national economy. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/policy-advisory-groups\/hs2-growth-taskforce\"><abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> Growth Taskforce<\/a>, led by Commercial Secretary Lord Deighton, is working hard with a relentless focus on growth looking at how to maximise the potential from <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr>. It will publish its final report and recommendations to government early next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from the UK&#8217;s 10 largest cities call for the fast delivery of HS2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}