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2 Mar 21
It is not too late for the chancellor to show the government is serious about its aim of ‘levelling up’, says IPPR North’s Marcus Johns.
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19 Feb 21
Transport for the North has scrapped its proposed contactless payment scheme after a reduction in central government funding.
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2 Dec 20
The Department for Transport has approved a £825m loan to the Transport for London to help complete the Crossrail scheme.
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2 Oct 20
Pre-pandemic, rail in Britain was forecast to grow by more than a third over the next two decades, but it will take extraordinary measures and levels of public money to get us back on track
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18 Sep 20
Infrastructure investment is seen as vital to post-pandemic recovery, but is it possible to provide a public transport network without the passenger numbers to fund it?
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8 Sep 20
We need resolute, ambitious action and the necessary financial, legislative and political support for local and combined authorities to deliver the right transport priorities for each region, says...
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24 Aug 20
Crossrail has announced further delays to the full opening of its service, meaning the line will not be fully operational until early 2022 and adding an additional £450m to the cost of the scheme.
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23 Jun 20
The coronavirus crisis is set to compound existing transport funding challenges faced by local authorities, according to Mark Stevens.
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10 Jan 20
Funding for pothole repairs in England is being disproportionately skewed towards urban areas with London councils able to spend three times more than county authorities, analysis has found.
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4 Dec 19
The Conservatives have promised to hand mayoral and combined authority areas £4.2bn to improve local train, bus and tram routes in England.
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28 Oct 19
Transport ministers will urge the Treasury to provide councils with longer-term funding in the next Spending Review to deal with the huge number of potholes on local roads.
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16 Oct 19
Leaders in the North and Midlands should take control of HS2 to avoid cancellation of the project as it will provide “massive” economic benefits, according to a partnership.
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27 Aug 19
The Northern Powerhouse Partnership think-tank has announced its own review of High Speed 2 in response to the government commissioning analysis of the project.
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19 Aug 19
Londoners will receive nearly three times more transport spend per person annually than those in the north of England until 2033 unless the government invests in the Northern Powerhouse, analysis has...
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18 Jul 19
Taxpayers and commuters have been let down by the persistent delays and growing costs of Crossrail, MPs have said.
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6 Jul 19
Cuts to spending on road maintenance since 2010 could have paid for 7.8 million pothole repairs, analysis has shown.
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20 May 19
Scrapping the next phase of High Speed 2 would be a disaster for regional economies, council leaders and mayors have warned.
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3 May 19
The firm leading the Crossrail project “deluded itself” over the line’s opening date and poor planning drove up the overall cost - which remains unknown, the financial watchdog has warned.
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26 Apr 19
Ferry giant P&O is to take legal action against the government over claims that money handed to train operator Eurotunnel put the ferry operator at a “competitive disadvantage”.
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18 Apr 19
Crossrail could go more than two years over its deadline despite billions of extra funding, it has been reported.
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6 Mar 19
Utility firms that leave roads susceptible to potholes could be given further responsibilities to fix them, the transport secretary has said.
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1 Mar 19
The transport secretary has announced he agreed a £33m deal to prevent legal action over Brexit ferry contract failures.
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28 Feb 19
Taxpayers face more rail “hell” unless the government improves its governance of the rail sector, a group of MPs has warned.
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10 Dec 18
The Department for Transport has agreed to provide a £1.3bn loan to the Greater London Authority to meet the rising costs of delivering Crossrail.
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27 Nov 18
Ports could suffer major disruption after Brexit as the Department for Transport is not prepared for a ‘no deal’ scenario, MPs have warned.