#NorthernPowercut - It's time for a fair deal for the North

The poor train service across the region mean large areas of Manchester regions not covered by any rail or tram network, resulting on reliance on motorway. in OL2 district no access to tram, train, poor bus network. Commute to Liverpool to work impossible without car and now being pressured to stop using the car by 2040, as the M60/62 Smart Motorway upgrade is running late and no sign of completion, the NW is poor for commitment to any kind of transport upgrade. London are shamefully restricting resource and commitment to management of any type of infrastructure improvements in NW needs urgent attention.

All the northern M.P.s seem to be asleep an not fighting hard enough for the north . As usual London and the southeast gets everything they want

I thought new plan was for us all to be equal......apparently it is, as long as you live in London. We all pay the same taxes so there must be level spend on infrastructure across the whole of the UK

Not good enough Mr Grayling we are being treated like 2nd class citizens.

It is long overdue that the north has to have easier connections to the south. Time to invest to make need it a success because the north IS the powerhouse for the country and always will and has been.

This is the single biggest contribution that could be made to the economy and environment of the north west and yorkshire

Invest in the Manchester - leeds infrastructure please

George Osbourne please get our rails back on track. They are crumbling underneath us. We need our infrastructure repairing badly.

Please get this back on track, we have poor rails that need straughteneing out too and some poor units to carry us in that are vfar to often shorter than supposed to be

get it back on track. the clowns at DfT and Network Rail need to go, and we don't mean privatisation. We need competency and clarity to bring the transport infrastructure in the North into the 21st century. What a joke.

If ministers did not know about the issues prior to the election then we need to know as smacks of incompetence or looking for plausible deniability

I am appalled that Tory ministers knew in March that Network Rail wanted to "pause" the Trans Pennine Electrification, yet continued to deceive the electorate right through the General Election Campaign by failing to inform the public. We need ELECTRIFICATION in the NORTH NOW !!

We want it now

Projects such as Trans-Pennine rail electrification are essential if the government is serious about economic development of the regions and the 'Northern Powerhouse', and resources have already been expended on it.

The "Northern Powerhouse" needs to be electrified to succeed.

This is badly needed now in West Yorkshire.We have had enough of this governments broken promises.

give us our fair share of rail investment! too much goes into london

Extend electrification to Selby and Kingston upon Hull

We're not a second class region!

Desperately needed to premote growth