{"id":73035,"date":"2016-08-05T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e0075bd9750c8b5aed9e69774d571d5a"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:00:14","slug":"news-story-transport-secretary-chris-grayling-visits-500-million-projects-set-to-boost-the-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73035","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transport Secretary Chris Grayling visits \u00a3500 million projects set to boost the north-west"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling sees first-hand how communities will benefit from major programme of investment in roads and ports<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3229 million project will provide Manchester with new A6 relief road, improving links to the airport<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3300 million investment in Liverpool docks will create 5,000 jobs<\/li>\n<li>Cheshire East Council given access to share of \u00a34 million to develop plans to tackle local congestion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling made his first official visit to the north-west today (5 August 2016), to see how record investment in transport will improve journeys and deliver economic growth across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The investment in the north will help deliver better journeys for people across the region, ensuring they feel the benefit of a growing economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Secretary visited the A6 Manchester Airport relief road, to see how the \u00a3229 million project will help unlock jobs in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire by improving access to Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The airport relief road is set to open October 2017 and will help create up to 5,450 new jobs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Manchester Airport relief road will help create up to 5,450 new jobs by linking people to work and opportunities.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/55083\/960-manchester-airport-relief-road-pictochart.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During his visit, he also gave the go-ahead for Cheshire East Council to develop its plans for the Middlewich Eastern Bypass. The proposal, if taken forward, would cut congestion in the town centre and open up land for commercial development.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The major investment we are making in transport across the north-west will improve journeys for local people as well as helping industry grow across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is part of our plan to invest in the north, and make an economy that works for everyone \u2013 not just the privileged few \u2013 by ensuring economic prosperity is spread throughout the country. Better infrastructure is likely to boost productivity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The government is working closely with <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transportforthenorth.com\/\">Transport for the North<\/a>, which represents councils and local enterprise partnerships, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/highways-england\">Highways England<\/a> to deliver a more efficient transport network in the region that supports business and growth.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bellamy, managing director of MAN Diesel &amp; Turbo <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>, welcomed the construction of the new airport relief road, which government is providing \u00a3165 million for. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We use Manchester Airport on a daily basis for the transportation of vital diesel engine spare parts and visiting our clients and sister companies worldwide. Access to the relief road on our doorstep will dramatically reduce the time taken to reach the airport, improving our response time to customers and ease of travel for our employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Transport Secretary also visited the Port of Liverpool to see Peel Ports\u2019 \u00a3300 million investment in the new Seaforth container terminal. It will mean the docks can accommodate some of the world\u2019s largest ships, helping provide 5,000 jobs over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Peel Ports\u2019 Chief Executive Mark Whitworth said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We very much welcome the minister\u2019s interest, which maintains the government\u2019s support for our efforts to facilitate <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> trade through this key cargo gateway.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the visit is particularly opportune given the recent arrival of the first containers at the port during our marine trials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">With full opening now imminent, we will soon be able to offer companies ship-to-door access to the heart of the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> market via the biggest container ships in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Secretary of State has today also given the go-ahead to 4 councils to develop plans for major transport schemes making \u00a34 million available to support them. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Middlewich scheme<\/li>\n<li>a new river crossing in Great Yarmouth<\/li>\n<li>the dualling of a bridge in Worcester<\/li>\n<li>a new junction on the M11 to serve Harlow, in Essex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funding will cover the costs to councils of developing business cases over the next 6 to 9 months. Once this work is completed the Department for Transport will decide which schemes should proceed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1018\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Roads media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3108\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister visits Manchester Airport relief road and Port of Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}