Richard Crabtree
‘Mayors will do business with Great British Rail as part of a statutory role’
@rich-crabtree.bsky.social - Head of Mayoral Partnerships at Shadow GBR talking about how places will be able to work on rail infrastructure and services in future
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Financial devo is the main issue.
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Metro mayors to control rail services under unprecedented England devolution plans
White paper paves way for London-style contactless-payment travel networks and unitary authorities to replace two-tier county and district councils
Two of my favourite topics in one news story - railways and local government empowerment. Looking forward to tomorrow's English devolution white paper, and to continuing the quest to deliver the dual benefits of rail reform and devolution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Director of Devolution Policy, Labour Together. Economist. Author at Future North writing about the North of England (link below).
Posts about policy, politics and the Pennines (and beyond).
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Ex-London Underground and retired back to "The North" - transport, design history, things industrial, architecture & heritage - all tickle my fancy. Postings often link to my Flickr account for more things!
Your time-traveling guide through the historical transport tapestry of Tyne and Wear, capturing the essence of a bygone era with every post.
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Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Director at @UTG-UK, the UK’s network of transport authorities. Listen to our podcast: https://urbantransportgroup.podbean.com/ for your transport fix. 🌈
Austro-British Industrialist. Chair of Great British Energy, Co-founder @vocl_uk, Former CEO #Siemens UK. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
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Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
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Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Retired transport planner MRTPI and Dad to Chloe. Trying to stay creative in planning and transport. School governor. Unfinished PhD, P/T student @aber.ac Rock music, real ale and SAFC.
Culture, economics, regeneration, business, politics & football. #SunderlandMusicCity #SAFC My own views. Retweets are not an endorsement http://MACTrust.org.uk
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Labour Councillor, mental health nurse, climate campaigner and a Former charity CEO. Posting in personal capacity
🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
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Economic policy, planning, transport, environment, housing & place. New town baby. Political about #pockets. Working in Cambridge local government. Formerly of DLUHC, BEIS, WhatWorksGrowth and Arup.
Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
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Train driver, husband, dad/grandpa, snapper, whippet owner, cider & ale fan, centre-left. ASLEF. Part-time misanthrope. Opinions unrelated to employer.
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RailMapOnline.com contains interactive maps showing past and present UK, Irish and US railways. Now with historic canals, trams, trolleybus and military airfields too.
