emta – april 2007
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EMTA – April 2007. About pteg and the PTEs. Six English PTEs serving six of largest conurbations (population of 11 million) pteg brings them together to share good practice and pursue issues of common interest Support Unit established four years ago - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EMTA – April 2007
About pteg and the PTEs
• Six English PTEs serving six of largest
conurbations (population of 11 million)
• pteg brings them together to share good practice
and pursue issues of common interest
• Support Unit established four years ago
• Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and TfL are
associate members
Key challenges
• Effective management and development of city region
transport networks dismantled during Thatcher era (in
particular deregulation of bus network)
• With UK city regions on the rise and the success of the
TfL / Mayoral model the momentum now is for more
devolved powers to the city regions
• Forthcoming draft legislation will ‘reform’ PTEs –
possibly giving them more influence over highways
network
Key challenges
• More powers on bus – though network franchising still very
challenging proposition
• UK government wants more road user charging pilots
(West Midlands and Greater Manchester are front runners)
and will make more funding available to ease the politics
• Some, but slow, progress on allowing city regions to raise
more transport funding locally
• ‘funding gap’ on transport between London and the next tier
of major cities
Modal progress
• Bus use, at best, flat-lining outside London (other
than growing number of free riders)
• Heavy rail growing very rapidly – and recovering
from worst of post-privatisation meltdown
• Light rail performing well but still seen as ‘damaged
goods’ by government due to high costs…leaving
BRT and tram-trains as ‘flavour of the month’
Getting there…?
• Still some way to go before we have the normal
situation of public authorities determining,
procuring and (to some extent) funding their sub-
regional transport networks but…there is
momentum in that direction
pteg and Europe
• North West region’s Brussel’s Office to represent
pteg on trial basis
• pteg European group to be re-established
• Some PTEs dissatisfied with costs and benefits of
UITP membership
• Exploring potential for combined membership of
EMTA