Changing Transport Infrastructure

• Rail

  • HS2 - high speed train
  • National project
  • Aims to connect northern, post-industrial cities to London
  • Improves North South connectivity
  • Originally estimated £ 50 billion, now £ 70 billion
  • Creates jobs and helps economy (short term only)

  
  

  • London cross rail (urban city)
  • Makes journeys quicker and more efficient
• Sea ports

  • Liverpool 2
  • £ 300 million project
  • Aims to expand port capacity to 1.5 million containers per year
  • Enables more trade
  • Creates thousands of jobs
  • Reduces amount of freight on road leading to decreased congestion, further improving road infrastructure
• Road

  • Investment strategy = £ 15 billion
  • 100 new roads by 2020
  • South-West "Super Highway" A303
  • Adding lanes to smart motorways
• Airports

  • Expansion of Heathrow
  • Aviation = 3.6% UK GDP and provides 300,000 jobs
  • 750,000 international flights per year from UK
  • 420,000 domestic flights per year in UK
  • 2 million tonnes of freight per year in UK
  • Expansions allow travel, migrants, and increase freight
• Why improve infrastructure?

  • Make journey times quicker and more efficient
  • Better economy
  • More trade