A team of researchers from Salford and Manchester Universities appointed to advise the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has reported that too much Government transport investment is being concentrated in London.

They recommended "spatial impact assessments" to challenge the current "place-blind" view of investment priority that inevitably favours the capital. "There is an argument for refocusing priorities towards the improvement of intra-City-Region infrastructure father than inter-city infrastructure", so that the city-regions have the same impact on their wider area as London has on the wider South East.

Treasury data shows that transport expenditure in London now far exceeds that in other parts of the country - about three times as much per person in London as in the South West.

Report in Local Transport Today

Local Transport Today also tabulates the 26million pound cost of the Westbury bypass in another article.   

It seems that RAIL and SHIRES are two dirty words ... and we're tarred with both in campaigning for a sensible train service!