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General Election 2019
Underperforming bus services are Metro Mayors’ responsibility nowWhoever wins in Westminster on December 12th, the buck now stops with metro mayors for the quality of bus services in their city, argues Simon Jeffrey.
Urban Voices: UK City Leaders’ Survey 2019
This report presents findings from the second survey of UK city leaders, providing some understanding of their needs and challenges along with recommendations for national policymakers.
General Election 2019
Transport priorities for the next GovernmentThe next Government should prioritise urban transport improvements and give cities the power to deliver them.
Delivering change — improving urban bus transport
Buses are critical urban infrastructure. But the number of journeys made on them has declined in almost all cities apart from London for the past few decades. This report cites deregulation...
From ‘bottom up’ to ‘levelling up’: What the Queen’s Speech said about cities
The Queen’s Speech offered the outlines of a clear programme for cities under a Boris Johnson government – more infrastructure and more mayors, reforms to self-employment and training and social care funding fixed once and for all.
Three things Grant Shapps needs to know about transport in cities
We turn our attention to transport policy for the third in our series offering new Secretaries of State some handy summer reading. Here we examine where it doesn’t work for people cities and...
What a Boris Johnson premiership may mean for cities
For the first time in British history a directly elected mayor has become Prime Minister – what might this mean for cities?
What Lord Heseltine’s latest report tells us about his vision for city devolution
Metro mayors are now established in many English cities, but Lord Heseltine argues they’re still waiting for many of the tools needed to do their job.