Laura Shoaf

Mayoral ‘congestion-busting partnership’ prepares for HS2

• 2nd March 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Department for Transport, Featured, HS2, HS2 Birmingham interchange, Laura Shoaf, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

Political and transport leaders have met “on a mission to keep the Midlands moving” during the huge HS2 construction programme. Transport minister Jesse Norman MP, Mayor of the West Midlands

Car, Sprint or Streetcars

• 8th February 2018
• Beverley Nielsen
• Andy Street, Featured, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, WMCA

Beverley Nielsen, the Lib Dem candidate for West Midlands Mayor last year, looks at ‘intermediate options’ on transport for Mayor Street. Historic transport policy decisions in the West Midlands seem

Keeping the West Midlands moving

• 31st January 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Devolution, Featured, George Osborne, HS2, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Northern Powerhouse, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

Against the backdrop of big bids, some won and others in battle, and political fallout from the Mayor’s attempt to secure a precept, it could be forgotten that transport remains

Street works: Mayor to appoint Business Advisory Group

• 20th June 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Devolution, Featured, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, Laura Shoaf, Neil Rami, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) stages its first Annual General Meeting this Friday, with Andy Street in the chair. Papers published ahead of the meeting reveal how Mayor Street

Keys to the Engine? Resilience and leadership, topped with confidence

• 1st December 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Devolution, Featured, Laura Shoaf, News, Partner Posts, Sion Simon, WMCA

Last week’s Keys to the Engine conference, organised by the Downtown in Business Birmingham business club, followed hot on the heels of the Autumn Statement which inevitably dominated some of the

WMCA transport arm wins top award at transport ‘Oscars’

• 14th October 2016
• Hannah Green
• Centro, Cllr Roger Lawrence, Featured, Laura Shoaf, News, Partner Posts, Transport, WMCA

And the winner of best transport authority goes to… Lo and behold. the public body responsible for keeping trains, trams and automobiles moving has been awarded the highest honour in the transport

Midland Metro partnership to deliver £1.2 billion of new tram routes

• 7th July 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Partner Posts, Transport, WMCA

A partnership to plan the delivery of £1.2 billion of new tram routes across Birmingham and the West Midlands has been launched. The Midland Metro Alliance brings together a team

£4Bn West Midlands transport boost unveiled by council leaders

• 15th June 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham Airport, Birmingham City council, Cllr Roger Lawrence, Councils, Devolution, Featured, HS2, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Partner Posts, Transport, WMCA, Wolverhampton council

Transport infrastructure improvements worth more than £4 billion will be driven through by councils over the next decade, according to an ambitious plan drawn up by the West Midlands Combined

Laura Shoaf gets top West Midlands transport job

• 9th June 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Centro, Cllr Roger Lawrence, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Partner Posts, WMCA, WMITA, Wolverhampton council

Council leaders have named the person chosen to head up a new West Midlands transport body. Laura Shoaf will be managing director at Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) with a

Geoff Inskip to quit Centro and ‘overcrowded’ West Midlands transport field

• 7th August 2015
• Paul Dale
• Birmingham City council, Birmingham New Street, Centro, Cllr Roger Lawrence, Councils, Featured, Geoff Inskip, Greater Birmingham Combined Authority, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, News, Transport, west midlands combined authority, West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority, WMITA

Geoff Inskip, the official at the head of West Midlands public transport body Centro, is quitting after almost a decade in charge. Mr Inskip, who was instrumental in helping to