The East Midlands Combined Authority has just launched an important consultation on transport matters. The rationale for the consultation is set out on the website:-

"The Mayor of the East Midlands has launched the region’s biggest listening exercise in decades – a 12-week conversation to shape a bold new 15-year transport vision. 

The Local Transport high-level vision explores the Mayor’s objectives to make travel across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire easier, cleaner and better connected. 

Residents, businesses and community groups are now being invited to take part in the Mayor’s Big Transport Conversation, to help shape the development of the full Plan. 

For the first time, the Mayor now has the power to plan transport as one joined-up network, bringing buses, trams, trains, walking and cycling routes together across the region. 

The Plan sets a clear direction for billions of pounds of investment to tackle key challenges like congestion, air pollution, and unreliable public transport, while promoting safer, greener routes for cycling, wheeling, and walking.

Transport Vision: By 2040, people in the East Midlands will have easy and reliable ways to travel and stay connected, whether by improved transport or digital connections like the internet.

Mayor Claire has six ‘fights’ for a fairer, better-connected East Midlands:

1. Fighting congestion
2. Fighting for young people’s independence
3. Fighting for connected communities
4. Fighting for reliable public transport
5. Fighting for better roads
6. Fighting for safe and clean bus stops

The Mayor’s Transport Plan has three goals to achieve these:

1. Affordable transport – To make travelling by public transport easier and more affordable.
2. Connecting communities – To connect all our communities by giving people travel choices that go beyond reliance on the car.
3. Safe and reliable – To bring our highways into a good state of repair, so they can offer reliability despite changing travel demands and a changing climate.

The Mayor wants to hear your views on the vision, which you can read about in the below Exec Summary".

Executive Summary

"If you would like to read the main document and other supporting documents to help you give your feedback. these are below:"

The Mayor’s Transport Plan – Main Document

Evidence Based Summary