Public transport inquiry: Committee to hear evidence on transport in South Yorkshire and community rail
Monday 27 June 2022
At 10am on Tuesday 28 June 2022, the Lords Built Environment Committee will take evidence from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and the Community Rail Network.
These evidence sessions will be held in Committee Room 4 of the House of Lords and streamed live on Parliament TV.
At 10.00am, the Committee will hear from:
- Stephen Edwards, Corporate Director of Public Transport, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.
Questions the Committee is likely to ask include:
- In what ways have travel behaviours changed in South Yorkshire post-Covid?
- What are you doing in South Yorkshire to deliver connectivity across public transport modes?
- Why didn’t South Yorkshire receive any funding for its proposed Bus Service Improvement Plan? How will this affect future bus services?
- What could be done to improve processes for the allocation of central government funding to local areas?
- What lessons can be learnt from the Rotherham tram-train scheme, which experienced significant delays?
At 10.45am, the Committee will hear from:
- Jools Townsend, Chief Executive, Community Rail Network.
Questions the Committee is likely to ask include:
- How does communityinvolvement/engagement in transport provision shape transport networks?
- What can be done to ensure that passengers are at the centre of decision making about public transport at both the national and local level?
- How can the Government’s commitment in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail to empower community rail be realised?
- How might passengers on other modes, including buses, have their voices heard more effectively and influence policy making?
More about this inquiry
The Committee’s work can be followed on its website and via Twitter.
Read the transcript of the Committee’s previous oral evidence session with Professor John Preston, Professor of Rail Transport at the University of Southampton on 21 June 2022.
