On average, 67% of residents in big EU cities can reach their city centre by public transport within 30 mins compared to just 40% in Britain’s big cities 🇪🇺🇬🇧 This has a negative impact on productivity & costs the UK economy more than £23.1bn per year 💷 Tweet added by Centre for Cities @CentreforCities

Centre for Cities

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On average, 67% of residents in big EU cities can reach their city centre by public transport within 30 mins compared to just 40% in Britain’s big cities 🇪🇺🇬🇧 This has a negative impact on productivity & costs the UK economy more than £23.1bn per year 💷

Measuring up: Comparing public transport in the UK and Europe's biggest cities - Centre for Cities

This report examines whether intra-urban public transport plays a role in the underperformance of big British cities and sets out the implications that transport has for the levelling up agenda.

www.centreforcities.org

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benjamin

@benjit14

1 year

@CentreforCities Is that on a like for like population basis? If not, it's another Centre of Cities junk statistic.

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Chris "Team Leonie " Cooper

@Callan4077

1 year

@CentreforCities Berlin 3.68 million Cologne 1,143,715 Budapest 1,778,000 Frankfurt 796,000 Milan 3,155,000 Brussels 2,214,691 Amsterdam 1,174,000 London 9,648,000 Still massive immigration. Stop cramming us in like sardines we'll get around quicker and you can stop gaslighting Twitter.

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Sean

@Stillicho82

1 year

@CentreforCities The Beeching Report.

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MikeP

@UK_Optimist

1 year

@CentreforCities And that's despite massively disproportionate investment in London's buses, underground (albeit all spent on pensions and wage rises), the Elizabeth line, and replacing carriageways buses and taxis could use with under-used cycleways.

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Crepycidon

@crepycidon

1 year

@CentreforCities That’s because their cities and infrastructure were reconstructed post WWII. Paid for in part by us Ours weren’t.

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