Bridlington Councillor: "East Riding needs transport investment too"
An East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor for Bridlington South is claiming Yorkshire's been overlooked
An East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor for Bridlington South says the county needs transport investment too.
Tim Norman is calling for funding to improve the rest of Yorkshire as well, claiming the region was overlooked in the Chancellor's Budget.
He is the Yorkshire Party's Deputy Leader and is joining forces with other members to make the case.
Councillor Andy Walker, who is also an East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor for Bridlington South and the Yorkshire Party's environment spokesperson, said: “The whole of Yorkshire needs more transport investment, such as the once proposed Hull-Liverpool link and the eastern leg of HS2, forgotten about in the Budget. We are not only a long way from levelling-up with the South-East but without investment of this scale there will continue to be a reliance on private transport and out-dated fossil fuel technology.”
Market Weighton Mayor, Peter Hemmerman, who is Chair of the Minsters Rail campaign said: “We welcome the funding to make the business case for reinstating the York-Beverley line, although that is a long way from actually building it. Of course, if York had stronger rail links to the rest of the UK, that would make the line more valuable to residents.”
Cllr Tim Norman added: “We are looking forward to the Government publishing its ‘Integrated Rail Plan’ which, with cancellations of vital projects appearing to be announced daily, is looking less integrated by the day. Had these projects been imagined in the South East then they would have been funded and built in the blink of an eye.”
“The levelling-up agenda needs to look at the whole of the UK including big cities, small towns and isolated and deprived seaside and rural areas. The Yorkshire Party is calling once again for the continued development of a Stronger Yorkshire within a Fairer United Kingdom.
"We really need to have infrastructure in place if Bridlington were to get even just a second train line or even just an improved double-dualled carriageway coming into Brid and up the east coast, then that would really improve the connectivity with Bridlington.
"It would help us to get to York, Scarborough and Hull where a lot of the jobs are. We're still in that deprived situation. Bridlington is very much of a deprived town and we do need that investment and it needs to be upped further so we can get that levelling up with the rest of the country."