News - Mid Suffolk Liberal Democrats

Key Element of North of England Rail Improvement Put in Place in Manchester.

The important rail infrastructure project known as the Ordsall Chord was given funding in 2011 by the Coalition Government as part of its economic recovery programme aimed at repairing the damage to UK caused by the Anglo-American Banking Crash. It was one of a package of rail improvement projects, among many others, announced by Rt Hon Norman Baker, the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Birmingham in September 2011.

22 Feb 2017

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A Second Tram Route Across Manchester - One of the Longterm Benefits of Vince Cable's Industrial Strategy

A new tram line through Manchester city centre was opened on 26th February 2017. This now completes Manchester's Metrolink expansion program. The new 1.3km stretch directly through the city centre has now resulted in over 60 miles of routes with 93 stops which makes the light rail network the largest in the UK.

28 Feb 2017

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Smart Monitoring to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability in Cross-Europe Rail Freight.

You may not have heard of VTG Rail UK but this long-established company with headquarters in Brimingham is, with over 2,000 railfreight wagons, Britain's largest private rail wagon hire company.

8 Mar 2017

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Icknield Way, Tring - Work on the Crossing between Longbridge Close and Chapel Meadow Now Started

It seems like a very long time but this project really took less than three years. This is quite fast for a highway project! On the other hand since the Icknield Way has been there a number of millennia perhaps it wasn't so fast after all. Perhaps people used to complain then of the danger in crossing it because of the all the migrating mammoths?

8 Mar 2017

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Croxley Rail Link at Risk in Labour/Tory Tussle

In November 2015 - that's nearly 18 months ago - Transport for London (TfL) announced with a great fanfare that they had finally secured full funding for the Croxley Rail Link. They said that construction would start in 2016 and it would be completed by 2020. They claimed it would "create more than 6,500 jobs and boost the local economy by £2 billion".

20 Mar 2017

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Shoppers Feeling Brexit Squeeze as Supermarket Prices Rise 2.3%

The average UK household has lost £21.31 in the past three months as supermarket prices rise due to Brexit inflation, research by Kantar Worldpanel has found.

6 Apr 2017

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