ICE response to local transport White Paper
Commenting on the Local Transport White paper published today, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Director General, Tom Foulkes, said:
“The availability of a pot where local authorities can bid for funding for their own sustainable transport projects is a positive step - however £560m won’t go far across 300 local authorities, especially in the context of the hefty cuts already made to local authority capital budgets. Empowering local authorities to make their own decisions on transport schemes must go hand in hand with a sufficient stream of funding.
“Given the limited size of the fund, Government must ensure that the right bids are being approved – such as those which will benefit communities most in need of local transport improvements and those which will further social, economic and environmental goals, both locally and nationally.”
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) was founded in 1818 to ensure professionalism in civil engineering. It represents 80,000 qualified and student civil engineers in the UK and across the globe. The ICE has long worked with the government of the day to help it to achieve its objectives, and has worked with industry to ensure that construction and civil engineering remain major contributors to the UK economy and UK exports.
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