Missing the Bus
Debates over public transport have disproportionately focused on the issue of trains, ignoring buses. This is despite 2.8 times more...
Debates over public transport have disproportionately focused on the issue of trains, ignoring buses. This is despite 2.8 times more...
Across the North of England 33 newspapers and websites have come together to call for a change in how the Government treats the North of...
Ideas and narratives have played a crucial role in determining how the Government allocates rail infrastructure investment, they shape...
The narrative of agglomeration economic has shaped where decision makers allocate rail infrastructure investment, as proposals that are...
The narrative of London being a global city has meant that the Government has prioritised London’s needs over the rest of the country...
Although the narratives of there being a North-South divide in the UK is deeply embedded in the thought process of people, it is only an...
The ‘root cause of the problem is that decisions are made in Whitehall Departments by people who are overwhelmingly from and live in the...
To understand why London continued to receive a disproportionately large share of rail infrastructure investment compared to the rest of...
Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling (2019) has said that ‘it is a great shame that half a century of underinvestment means cities in the...
Attention needs to be drawn to the unequal relationship between London and the rest of the country, because as the Government’s own...
The UK has the highest regional inequality of any advanced OECD country (McCann, 2016, pp.65), with the imbalance in rail infrastructure...