🗳️ ELECTION DAY HAS ARRIVED 🗳️ 2️⃣1⃣ million people living in metro mayoral areas across England are heading to the polls to elect a #MetroMayor responsible for helping their city-region reach its potential🌃 #Elections2021 A short thread on why #MetroMayors matter 🔽

Not sure that government fully appreciates how reliant they are on the Metro Mayors - cover 40% of popn - to deliver their levelling-up agenda. Ignoring or sidelining them is not a good strategy for success.

✍️Tom Sells responds to the white paper on #RailReform "The Williams-Shapps plan for rail is a step in the right direction but stops short of where it needs to go by keeping power in the centre, away from local government." Thread continues 🔽 centreforcities.org/blog/response-…

The way in which bus services operate in UK city-regions is at a crossroads 🚌 #BusFranchising will give metro mayors more meaningful control & benefit all those who live and work in England’s city-regions. Follow for 5️⃣ key takeaways from our report 👇 centreforcities.org/publication/ge…

📢 Centre for Cities' new report challenges the idea that people’s finances have benefited from lockdown. Elena Magrini & Tom Sells have analysed Covid-savings and Covid-debt to understand what this means for the recovery of UK cities and large towns. centreforcities.org/publication/an…

Why is transport so crucial to the #LevellingUp agenda? 🚌🚗🚆 For the 3rd episode in our new #CityMinutes mini-series, Tom Sells and Andrew Carter explore the importance of transport to the Government's ambitions to level up the country. Listen here 👇 linktr.ee/CityTalksPodca…

🚨 OUT TODAY 🚨 Our latest report, authored by Analyst Valentine Quinio & published in partnership with HSBC UK, sets out how cities & large towns are central to the UK meeting its #NetZero emissions objective by 2050. Read the full report here 👇 centreforcities.org/publication/ne…

Which cities turned to Deliveroo the most over the pandemic? Where in the country has seen public transport use drop off the most? What impact will these ingrained behaviours have if they hang around as the economy opens back up? Read my latest blog to find out...

To successfully reach #NetZero, the UK doesn’t just need green cars, it needs fewer cars on the roads. 🚗🚫🌱 Which cities & towns are best placed to face this transition & which are falling behind? Valentine Quinio investigates in her latest blog 🔎 centreforcities.org/blog/why-we-ne…

Our new #CityMinutes mini-series explores #LevellingUp through looking at different policy areas. 🎧 Have a listen to Researcher Tom Sells discussing the role that transport plays in the agenda. 🚗🚌⏫ linktr.ee/CityTalksPodca…

💥We're kick-starting the week with the 1st in a 4️⃣-part blog series on the performance of UK towns from Senior Analyst Kathrin Enenkel.💥 Follow for 3️⃣ key insights from her first blog. #LetsTalkTowns #LevellingUp centreforcities.org/blog/why-stron…