Metrolink will go to Ashton

Metrolink’s extensions to Ashton and East Didsbury will go ahead as planned.

Yesterday projects worth billions of pounds were cancelled and suspended by the new Government, with only a few given the go-ahead by Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

He told MPs that ministers had to make “difficult and painful” decisions.

The extension was one of a handful of Department for Transport projects to be given the green-light. Schemes that were suspended now go into the spending review which is expected to conclude in the autumn.