USING further modelling and analysis, Midlands Connect, the sub-national transport body for the region, is working on a revised ‘Freight Routemap’, building on the first which it produced in 2022.
Taking into account the changing movement of goods, regional growth and the need for decarbonisation, the document is a long-term plan which will be updated at regular intervals as key information becomes available. It includes the zone known as the ‘golden triangle’ (incorporating the West Midlands Combined Authority area, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire and parts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire), so-called because