The Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Mark Harper MP, visited Lincoln on Monday at the site of the final piece of the bypass (Southern Bypass/North Kesteven Relief Road). This is on the back of the Government’s announcement of a new Local Transport Fund including £262 million which will directly benefit Lincolnshire.
Since 2010, the Conservative Government has invested huge sums into Lincoln’s transport system benefitting local people, businesses, students and tourists. From the Eastern Bypass now known as ‘McCartney Way’ around the Eastern side of the City, and by the end of this decade completed to the A46 Pennell’s roundabout, to direct trains to London, bottlenecks being tackled and a new bus station.
Soon there will also be a new £20+ million road bridge to relieve congestion to the west of Lincoln.
The extra funding announced yesterday will help us to make even further progress. Certainly, improvements to our railway links are crucial such as upgrading the Castle line between the City and Nottingham as is dealing with potholes and bottlenecks, and improving bus services across the City and County.
I certainly will be working with local County Council colleagues (Cllr Martin Hill, Leader of Lincolnshire County Council and Cllr Richard Davies, Cabinet member for Highways and Transport who were there as well) to direct the extra funding into those areas.
