Originally Posted by
davidjpowell
No one is being asked to do that. The mayor is using some of his transport allocation at the airport. No extra funding is required.
That money could be used on other infrastructure in south Yorkshire instead. Better roads. Better trains. Better buses.The kind of transport infrastructure that people use 51 weeks of the year. There are dozens of potential low-budget high-local-impact projects in south Yorkshire that really need the money.
Instead the day-to-day stuff gets starved and has to continue to rot while the blingy once-per-year stuff gets a huge pile of cash.