Alexander hails record investment in local transport

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told Labour's conference that the party had delivered the "biggest ever investment in local transport in England's city regions". She highlighted rapid transit for Liverpool, zero-emission buses in Manchester, new stations, new Tube trains in London, and pledged to "end the scandal of Leeds being the largest city in Europe without a metro". Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Thanks to our Labour Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, we are making the biggest ever investment in local transport in England's city regions.

00:09So working with our brilliant Labour mayors, we will expand the Tyne and Weir metro to Washington,

00:15extend the tram to East Birmingham and bring a rapid transit system to Liverpool.

00:21We will build new stations at Portishead and Peel in the West Country,

00:26reopen Haxby Station on the outskirts of York,

00:30and improve rail, road and bus connections in the East Midlands.

00:34We'll fund zero-emission buses in Greater Manchester, a new fleet of trams for South Yorkshire,

00:40a new Piccadilly and Elizabeth blind trains for London.

00:45And Tracy, we will end the scandal of Leeds being the largest city in Europe without a metro,

00:52and we will build mass transit for West Yorkshire.

00:56And colourful, we will be together.

01:05Thank you very much.

01:06Thank you very much.

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