The areas set to get new train, bus and tram links, mapped

Chancellor to announce £15.6bn for local transport projects for England’s city regions between 2027 and 2032.

Rachel Reeves has given the go-ahead for new train, bus and tram links across the country as part of the Government’s Defence Spending Review.

In a speech on Wednesday, the Chancellor will announce £15.6bn to pay for local transport projects for England’s city regions between 2027 and 2032.

The investment will include £1.8bn in the North East for a Metro extension linking Washington to Newcastle and Sunderland.

South Yorkshire will receive £1.5bn, with £530m being used to renew the tram network and £350m being allocated for reform of the region’s buses, with franchised buses operating in Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham by 2027 and across the whole of South Yorkshire by 2029.

Around £2.1bn will be provided to the Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, to start building the West Yorkshire Mass Transit system by 2028, with the aim for first services by the mid-2030s. There will also be new bus stations at Bradford and Wakefield.

The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, will receive £2.4bn to build a metro extension to Birmingham’s sports quarter – a key ask of Birmingham City FC, which wants to build a new stadium and redevelop the surrounding area.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, will also receive £2.5bn for the Metrolink tram network, paying for new stops in Bury, north Manchester and Oldham and a Metrolink extension to Stockport town centre.

The money will also help pay for a fully electric Bee Network, planned for 2030, including bikes, trams and 1,000 new buses.

The Liverpool City Region will get £1.6bn. Around £100m will go towards three new bus rapid transit routes, to the Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Everton stadium and Anfield.

The money will also be used to buy a new fleet of buses for the city region’s franchised bus network, beginning with St Helens and the Wirral in 2026 and then Sefton, Knowsley, North and South Liverpool in 2027.

The West of England will receive £800m, including £150m to improve rail infrastructure across the region and £200m for a mass transit development between Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.

The Tees Valley will receive £1bn, of