Local transport now ‘front of centre’ of DfT thinking

Deniz Huseyin
18 December 2024
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Local transport has assumed a more prominent role within the DfT, says Jessica Matthew, Co-Director Local Transport at the DfT. She told delegates at the Local Transport Summit that “it feels like local transport is now front and centre of department thinking”.

She said that in the past local transport was a “Cinderella area” within the DfT but it “feels to me that that's changed quite a bit - I think it is now feels quite profoundly different”.

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