It is important to consider future investments and decisions strategically, ensuring infrastructure not only provides the basics for the economy, but also actively supports the long-term national interests.
The Strategic Transport Plan along with the Investment Programme do just that, by ensuring the North’s existing and future economic assets and clusters are better connected.
Read moreThe Investment Programme aims to provide greater certainty for Local Transport and Highway Authorities to deliver complementary investment.
It aims to give businesses in the supply chain, including SMEs, the confidence to invest and grow, plan interventions, build up their skills base, and collaborate across industries.
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In order to meet the North’s strategic transport needs and successfully deliver the Strategic Transport Plan, significant capital investment will be required between now and 2050.
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The transport system in Cumbria is crucial to our work, therefore we believe the proposals that Transport for the North have put forward will allow us to explore alternatives such as rail freight to move our goods around the region.
The Funding Framework developed alongside the Strategic Transport Plan sets out how we will look to work with Government to design, develop, and deliver the Investment Programme over the coming decades.
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"We support Transport for the North’s work which has tackled key pinch points on the most important routes to facilitate improved cross-border movement."
The work on the Strategic Development Corridors is providing enhanced analysis and strategic programme cases for investment for each of these corridors, as well as an initial value for money assessment for the preferred package of interventions.
For the Investment Programme, Transport for the North is focused on the strategic movements of people, goods and businesses. This means we tend to focus on longer journeys across the North, rather than local transport. While our interventions will take account of the use of buses, cycling and pedestrians during delivery, this does not influence our decision-making process at the present. Rather than driving these improvements ourselves, we support local authorities in their development of local transport network.
While Transport for the North is focused on enabling transformational growth in the North, we understand that transport transcends the boundaries of government. We are working closely with national transport bodies (Highways England and Network Rail) as well as the Welsh Government, Midlands Connect and Transport for Scotland. This collaborative and open approach provides us with valuable insight and ensures that our goals and programmes are suitably aligned with each other.
As a statutory transport body, TfN has the power to directly influence the investments in strategic transport across the North. Each of these interventions in our Investment Programme have been identified as key to improving connectivity in the North and providing transformational growth in the UK’s economy. After developing the strategic business cases for these interventions, the relevant transport body, whether that’s Highways England, Network Rail, or the local authorities, will fund the development and delivery of the project.
One of the many benefits to living and working in the North is our built and natural environment. As part of our feasibility work we will be carrying out assessments of how the Investment Programme may impact our environmental assets. This includes effects on:
We’ve a bold plan for the North to renew and recover in the year ahead. Our Business Plan for 2021/22 plan sets out how, in providing one voice for the North, TfN will make
Setting out the key messages on the case for investment in transport and our work programmes
This outlines a pipeline of transport interventions to better connect the whole of the North, with a short, medium and long-term plan for investment.
Summary | Adaptive planning to deliver our strategic vision in an uncertain future
Leaders of the North have agreed on a preferred network for Northern Powerhouse Rail – a huge upgrade to the North’s railways which will unlock the prosperity of the regio
Transforming journeys in the North | The case for investment in roads: Transport for the North's pan-Northern bid to the National Roads Fund
Click on the interactive map below to see the plans for the future transport investment.
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