Board backs £170M upgrade for region

09 April 2008
 
The Sheffield to Rotherham Bus Rapid Transit scheme (northern route) and a region-wide smartcard ticketing system are among 10 key transport projects approved for Yorkshire and Humber.

The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Transport Board last week backed more than £170M worth of schemes aimed at meeting business and commuter needs in the region. But the schemes cannot go on until funding has been agreed by the Department for Transport.

The northern route of the Bus Rapid Transit scheme (£36M), will see the system operating between Sheffield and Rotherham via Templeborough and Meadowhill.

The route via the developing business park at Waverley was approved in September 2007. The Yorcard smartcard ticketing system (£28M), currently on trial in Sheffield, would be rolled out across the region. The trial will continue throughout 2008, with full implementation proposed for all forms of public transport.

Other schemes approved include the A61 Penistone Road Quality Bus Corridor in Sheffield (£10M), three park-and-ride schemes in York, and the A684 Bedale, Aiskew, Leeming Bar bypass, North Yorkshire (£31M). A total of 24 schemes was originally submitted with a combined value of £333.4M. Regional Transport Board chair, Mark Kirk, said the decisions had followed independent analysis.

‘The approach has been extremely rigorous and aimed at ensuring schemes brought forward make maximum use of the full regional funding allocation to produce good-quality projects,’ he added.

David Brown, director general of South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, said: ‘These important schemes will make a major contribution to improving public transport across South Yorkshire, and I am very pleased that they have received regional approval. ‘We will need to work up a full business case and carry out extensive consultation on each scheme.’

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