TfN recommends new direction for Trans-Pennine road studies

Roads

22 January 2021
Woodhead Pass: single bore tunnel?
Woodhead Pass: single bore tunnel?

 

Transport for the North (TfN) has recommended ending a study into building a major new road between Lancashire and Yorkshire, and says the idea of a road tunnel connecting Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire needs to be rethought too. 

TfN’s board received an update  last week on the separate studies into a Trans-Pennine tunnel connecting Greater Manchester and the Sheffield City Region, and a major new road in the M6-A1(M) Central Pennines corridor connecting Lancashire and...

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