Tram workers and representatives of Nottingham Express Transit (NET), the company responsible for Nottinghamshire’s tram network, met with the county’s MPs in Parliament this month to make the case for tram extension.
Members of Parliament from Nottingham City, as well as the county seats of Gedling, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe and Sherwood, all met with tram workers’ to hear the economic and social case for extending the network beyond it’s existing two lines.
The meeting comes after unions called for an extended tram network to form a core part of the East Midland Combined Authority’s new Local Transport Plan for the region.
Colin Whyatt, GMB Organiser, said:
“Nottinghamshire’s MPs understand the huge social and economic benefit that the tram extension will bring.
“Millions of working people rely on the network every single year to get in and around our county.
“Not only that, but the investment in infrastructure, rolling stock and the wider supply chain could secure thousands of jobs across the East Midlands.
“Now is the time for decision makers to come together and work out a path to see spades in the ground this decade”.
