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Lecture

Transpennine Route Upgrade: vision, planning and delivery

Event organised by ICE

Date
27 February 2025
Time
18:00 - 20:00 GMT
Location
York Explore
Station Road
Library Square
York, YO1 7DS
United Kingdom

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Overview

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a major, multi-billion-pound programme of railway improvements to bring better journeys to passengers travelling across the Pennines between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York.

This evening panel presentation and discussion will consider how objectives for this programme have been set, planned and delivered. Chaired by Jonathan Spruce, ICE trustee for policy and external affairs, the panel consists of Jo Griffiths, TRU programme director and James Wallace, PMO lead, TRU East. 

This is the first event of many organised and delivered by our newly formed York and North Yorkshire branch, following its recent launch. 

Programme

17:30 - 18:00

Registration and refreshments

18:00 - 20:00

Panel debate, presentations and Q&A

20:00

Close 

Speakers

Jonathan Spruce

Jonathan Spruce

Hydrock now Stantec

divisional director, transport

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Jonathan Spruce

Jonathan is a civil and transportation engineer with over 30 years’ worth of wide-ranging experience working for the public and private sectors.

He is the national lead for transport at Hydrock, now Stantec and is an experienced advisor to the public and private sector, regularly providing advice at a senior level to local authorities and partnerships in the UK, aimed at the development of integrated transportation and regeneration solutions aimed at supporting economic and social growth in towns and cities.

He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Institution of Civil Engineers, currently acting as chair to the Policy and External Affairs Committee and the ICE’s Policy Fellows Network. He recently gave evidence on behalf of the ICE to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee inquiry into Strategic Transport Priorities.

For more information please contact:

Joanne Topping

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