Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Andy Burnham has unveiled a raft of transport announcements on day one of his second term, vowing to turn the entirety of Greater Manchester’s system into a contactless black-and-yellow ‘Bee Network’ by 2024.
In a morning press conference designed to show he is ‘hitting the ground running’ on delivery, he said the business case for a tram to Middleton would now be worked up ahead of government transport funding due next year.
Delivery of a franchised bus network - plans for which were signed off shortly before the election - will be brought forward by 12 months, he said, to be completed within three years.
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