The Oxford-Cambridge Corridor with Naomi Green
Naomi Green has one of the toughest, and most exciting, jobs in transport today.
The Oxford-Cambridge Corridor is a change programme on an extraordinary scale hidden in plain site.
Both Oxford and Cambridge are expanding, driven by new Growth Companies. At least one - and possibly multiple - brand new towns are planned. The largest theme park in Europe is coming. A new railway is opening. And there’s so much more.
All this is happening in a region with multiple county and district authorities, various bus operators and - currently - a mix of different rail operators.
Somehow all this has to be stitched together into a coherent public and active travel proposition that ensures the economic potential can be delivered.
The person in charge of bringing it all together is my guest this week, the Managing Director of England’s Economic Heartland: the sub-national transport body responsible for the OxCam Corridor.
She joins me today to describe the nature of the challenge - and scale of the opportunity.
Naomi Green has one of the toughest, and most exciting, jobs in transport today.
The Oxford-Cambridge Corridor is a change programme on an extraordinary scale hidden in plain site.
Both Oxford and Cambridge are expanding, driven by new Growth Companies. At least one - and possibly multiple - brand new towns are planned. The largest theme park in Europe is coming. A new railway is opening. And there’s so much more.
All this is happening in a region with multiple county and district authorities, various bus operators and - currently - a mix of different rail operators.
Somehow all this has to be stitched together into a coherent public and active travel proposition that ensures the economic potential can be delivered.
The person in charge of bringing it all together is my guest this week, the Managing Director of England’s Economic Heartland: the sub-national transport body responsible for the OxCam Corridor.
She joins me today to describe the nature of the challenge - and scale of the opportunity.
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