TRAM SUPPORTERS REMAIN UPBEAT AFTER GOVERNMENT MEETING

Despite the Government’s recent plans to cut billions of pounds from its budget, some local politicians are still upbeat that plans for the extension to Nottingham’s tram system will go ahead. It has been thought the project would be dumped as part of cost-cutting measures by the new collation Government, but further lines to Clifton via Silverdale and Chilwell via Beeston, are still on the agenda.
A group of local Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors recently travelled to the Palace of Westminster to meet Norman Baker.
Labour’s Jane Urquhart said: “It is not just the Labour party supporting it, the tram extension has support from other parties. We talked to him (Norman Baker) about how advanced our plans were and he was positive about light rail and made it clear he was a supporter.”