Transport for the North responds to the Prime Minister’s speech: ‘We’re ready to deliver NPR’
Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference today (6 October 2021), Tim Wood, Transport for the North’s Director of Northern Powerhouse Rail, said:
“It was good to hear the Prime Minister say that the greatest challenge for the country was levelling up its economy and its society and that building Northern Powerhouse Rail was central to that. Like us, he recognised that poor rail links across the North are contributing to the national imbalance in our economy and called transport “the supreme leveller-upper”.
“We have worked collaboratively with the Government over the past two years to come up with a blueprint for a new rail network that will free the North from the constraints of poor infrastructure that have held it back for far too long.
“We need now to move at pace to make this NPR a reality. We stand ready to work with the Government to deliver for the North and for the whole country.”
The pan-regional benefits of Northern Powerhouse Rail were revealed in new analysis by Transport for the North earlier this week: click here to find out more.
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