(18 Sep 2024, 4:04 pm)Adrian wrote The North East has been granted about £1.5bn in City Regional Sustainable Transport (CRSTS) funding, which was a product of the last Government, and covers what you describe as basic maintenance. See: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...uthorities

I'm not sure why you think it has nothing to do with transport? All of the examples in your screenshot, whilst maybe not a priority to you, are still examples of transport projects.

I don't want to go into it to much as this isn't a politics forum but it's all about how this stuff is announced. 

To me announcing £8bn in transport improvements should be that not doing the maintenance of assets. 

These should be coming from the council budgets. It's not funds when it's the money you took off the council budget a year earlier and is just giving credit to Westminster for giving the money back you should've had anyway.