It is the Government’s business to find the money for West Yorkshire’s mass-transit system

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A senior civil servant who worked for the Home Office for many years once told me that every Government department has a filing cabinet where awkward and costly issues are discreetly sent to die.

When the drawer clanged shut on a report outlining radical change, it was consigned to oblivion, usually because it was too expensive to action, or ministers did not regard it as a political priority. That civil servant’s words popped into my mind last week when the National Infrastructure Commission outlined how Britain should build for the future, which had some thought-provoking assessments of what our region needs to prosper.

Long-suffering passengers know real improvements would mean faster and more frequent services, on which it’s possible to get a seat, not fewer trains. Taken together, the NIC report and the latest inadequacies of TPE amount – presumably unintentionally – to an official acknowledgement of how badly served our region has been over investment in critical infrastructure upon which economic progress depends. That’s as depressing as it is infuriating.

 

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