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Big cities like Birmingham could better connect many more people to its city centre by public transport in 30 minutes.
But this doesn't involve expanding the network. This is simply from making the existing network function better: integration. Thread 🧵
NEW REPORT | Integrated transport: The size of the prize for mayors 🚌🚂🚃
Transport is the wiring that allows urban economies to function. But this wiring is faulty in big UK cities outside of London.
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In Doncaster, the minimum wage is 82% of local median pay. In Reading, it is 53%.
This map from our latest report shows how the same national wage floor creates very different labour market realities across British cities.
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See also: very different outcomes in big UK cities too! Not just at the extremes
Interesting chart from the @CentreforCities report: the bite is rising everywhere, but the share of workers earning close to the minimum is rapidly rising in low-wage cities -- and not rising in high wage cities. Pres. the MW is cutting into a denser part of the wage distribution
Encouraging, and a positive signal that govt is taking big city transport integration seriously.
And It's the right focus for Manchester too, as our city centre connectivity modelling shows.
Ticketing soon, hopefully timetables next from end of 2026.
Manchester is further along the integrated transport journey than other big cities - see the succes of the Bee Network.
It could still better connect 82,000 residents just through better linking up modes, and increase connectivity by a third with other steps alongside.
With integrated modes, increased bus frequency and reduced journey times #Manchester could see 255,000 more people connected to the city centre 📢
Back to the prize. Let's translate it to cold hard cash. By increasing effective city size, we estimate £17 billion in additional output through productivity gains.
So the prize is big. To win it, government must continue to support mayors improving their local transport.
Be like @thomasforth and 'be the mayor' in your city using our data tool - choose which steps toward integration you would take, see how many people they would connect to your city centre, and how they would measure up to the neighbourhoods most suited to public transport.
This @CentreforCities work on how pretty quick tweaks to existing public transport systems in large British cities --- which franchising makes easier in lots of ways --- could substantially improve effective city sizes without much new infrastructure. centreforcities.org/event/re…
Want to see how I turned thousands of live bus locations into charts like this? And what integrated transport could mean for UK's secondary cities? Dive into our new report to find out 👇
NEW REPORT | Integrated transport: The size of the prize for mayors 🚌🚂🚃
Transport is the wiring that allows urban economies to function. But this wiring is faulty in big UK cities outside of London.
Read the report 🔎👇
buff.ly/CRggzgl