Growth Track 360 and Mersey Dee Alliance explain to Welsh Labour Conference case for cross-border rail infrastructure investment to strengthen regional economy | |
17 March 2022Business and local authority leaders in the Growth Track 360 and Mersey Dee Alliance partnerships have explained their case for cross-border rail infrastructure investment at the Welsh Labour Conference.At a fringe meeting held during the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno on Saturday 12 March and chaired by Mick Whitley, Labour MP for Birkenhead: Helen Swift, Public Affairs Manager for Airbus UK, gave the perspective of an iconic advanced manufacturing business on the importance of the Mersey Dee Alliance’s cross-border recovery deal following the pandemic and of improved public transport connectivity throughout the region. Councillor Liam Robinson, Chair of Liverpool City Region Transport Committee, said: "A multi-billion-pound visitor economy has been built in the Wales-England cross-border region despite the limited public transport provision, so it is right to imagine what could be achieved with a modernised and expanded public transport system." He added: "The brilliant relationship between Liverpool City Region and the Welsh Government is enabling development of a joint approach to bus improvements throughout the cross-border region." Councillor Stuart Whittingham from Wirral, Vice Chair of the Mersey Dee Alliance, explained how the high degree of cross-border economic integration has enormous potential to contribute to a Net Zero Carbon economic transformation. | |
