TfSE and Heartland bodies established
TRANSPORT SECRETARY Chris Grayling has announced £2 million of government funding to be awarded to two new transport bodies to develop transport strategies.
The sub-national transport bodies are England’s Economic Heartland, which broadly covers the Oxford to Cambridge corridor, and Transport for the South East, which represents a region stretching from Berkshire to Kent. The government says the funding will enable the bodies to develop ‘innovative transport plans fit for the future of their regions’ and will allow local people ‘to influence government investment decisions at a more regional level, filling the existing gap between national and local transport authorities’. Both bodies are seeking to become statutory subnational transport bodies, emulating Transport for the North, which achieved this status in April this year.
