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  • "Yes RoseD has some good ideas - just hope they dont spend all their time banging on about dualling the ring road when there's no money for it and not likely to be, given the cost of another bridge over river and railway. Cheap public transport that runs until 11pm on key radial routes to main population centres would move us on in the era of high cost fossil fuels. And while we are at it a free city centre shuttle bus serving station, hospital and main car parks would make life easier for elderly and disabled and remove need for them to drive through so called 'footstreets'!!"
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York MP Julian Sturdy to hold talks on transport

A YORK MP was today staging the first of a series of transport talks with business leaders after saying more needs to be done to tackle the city’s congestion problems.

Julian Sturdy, who represents York Outer, has set up a working group to discuss issues surrounding transport infrastructure which he said threatens York’s ability to keep pace with rival cities.

Today’s meeting will be attended by representatives from York Racecourse, the Shepherd Group, Northminster Business Park, the University of York, Science City York, Visit York and Cellhire, as well as from City of York Council, the Federation of Small Businesses and York Economic Partnership. York Central MP Hugh Bayley will also attend.

Mr Sturdy said: “I am delighted so many influential business leaders have joined the transport working group, which I am determined will be strictly non-political and rather an expression of local businesses’ concerns.

“Our great city has enormous potential for the future, but it will be undermined unless we are able to tackle some of our pressing transport infrastructure problems.

“I firmly believe this working group is a positive starting point as we look to draw up a list of key priorities.”

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