All 26 Labour MPs in the North East have actually signed a joint letter calling on the Government to increase transport financing in the region.
Together with their party associates, they are highlighting exactly what they view as the inequality between what is invested on transport in the North and London "with London getting more than double the amount the North gets per head of the population". The letter, addressed to the Secretary of State for Transportation, Chris Grayling, requires to understand exactly what his department means to do to resolve "the absence of financial investment in the North East's transportation systems". It also requests immediate actions to be taken to increase financing levels to address "continuous chronic and historic underfunding in transport facilities across the North East of England." Ian Mearns, MP for Gateshead, said: "the recent Institute for Public Policy Research study report, Future Transport Financial Investment in the North, with figures taken from official federal government data, graphically highlights the huge variation in costs strategies on transportation infrastructure between the North East of England and London. "It is widely identified that there is no doubt that our transport facilities in the North East is, at best, poor and in a lot of cases awful. "Therefore, this is an urgent and unified appeal for government action to rectify a long-term issue." More than 2,000 people have already signed our project for a questions into the variety of accidents on the A19 with more than 70 individuals suffering injuries last year in a stretch of dual carriageway from Wolviston, near Hartlepool, to Boldon. Sourcehttps://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/north-east-labour-mps-in-joint-plea-to-increase-transport-funding-in-the-region-1-8998275 from http://taxi.nearme.host/north-east-labour-mps-in-joint-plea-to-increase-transportation-funding-in-the-area/
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