{"id":2449,"date":"2022-07-20T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2022-07-20T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:02:03","slug":"national-audit-office-report-20-07-2022-the-transpennine-route-upgrade-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"National Audit Office Report 20\/07\/2022 &#8211; The Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme has had a difficult start, with the Department taking more than a decade to agree a scope. As a result, passengers will have to deal with delays and overcrowding on a route that is at full capacity for longer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Not our words, this is the damning verdict of the National Audit Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to report is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/report\/the-transpennine-route-upgrade\/\">The Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme &#8211; National Audit Office (NAO) Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Transpennine Route Upgrade Programme has had a difficult start, with the Department taking more than a decade to agree a scope. As a result, passengers will have to deal with delays and overcrowding on a route that is at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,77],"tags":[26,78],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrification","category-transpennine-route-upgrade","tag-electrification","tag-transpennine-route-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}