Businesses across the UK rely on road and rail links to connect to employees, customers and suppliers. Yet investment in local public transport has for too long been focused on the capital, contributing to regional inequalities and restricting the growth of major cities around the country. 

We at Scape Group recently polled 2,000 UK adults and found that 75% of them think the UK’s current investment in metro systems is too focused on London. London’s underground network may elicit daily complaints from commuters, but boasting 52 miles of genuine underground track, it connects people from across London and the Home Counties with thousands of jobs. In 2011, almost half a million commuters were travelling more than 30km to their work in London, double the number that travelled the same distance to work across all six major city regions in the North. 

It’s essential that cities across the country are provided with funding to help their local economies grow. Our current London-centric approach will only widen regional disparities

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