French cities build way more trams than the UK. Over the past decade alone, they've added more than the entirety of all England's exiting networks combined. It's not just trams - from road to rail, England's transport infrastructure delivery has fallen behind. We wanted to find out why 🚃

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To build more quickly, the mayors need changes to powers, the planning system, their financing of projects, and their capacity to deliver projects. All of this together will help Britain invest in more and better infrastructure:

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To see more, check out our new report on infrastructure devolution: bsky.app/profile/cent...

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The Government (rightly) wants Mayors to be at the centre of delivering better transport for their regions. But they face big barriers, especially planning and finance. @rjson.bsky.social and @adammoogan.bsky.social dug into those barriers and how to overcome them.

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And if horror show, head-in-hands delays and cost over-runs are your thing, we have (too many!) examples. Check out Licence to Build 😎 www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/u...

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