Very good post from @chriscurtis94.bsky.social on why we need trams and how development could me made easier and cheaper by devolution, reconfiguring costs, and making environmental approval processes more sensible
Ashwin Kumar
Why do our second-tier cities underperform?
Why do we have fewer trams in the UK?
I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...
Britain’s second-tier cities are being held back by a simple problem, too many people still cannot get across them quickly enough to reach the jobs, customers and opportunities that drive growth.
