Business Matters: Councillor Don Mackenzie, North Yorkshire County Council | Episode 48

Transport for the North Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the Transport for the North Podcast! Join our new Business Matters series, which looks at transport investment as an enabling force to encourage job creation, economic growth and increased access to opportunity for the 16 million people living here. In this episode, Gemma speaks to County Councillor Don Mackenzie, who is TfN Board Member for North Yorkshire and is Executive Member for access, including highways, passenger transport, countryside access, broadband and mobile telephony at Yorkshire County Council. Councillor Mackenzie tells us about the huge opportunities on offer in beautiful North Yorkshire. We discuss transport resilience, access to rural communities through improving rail and bus services, and how we could improve East - West links across the county, which is the largest non-metropolitan county in England. Councillor Mackenzie also speaks about the importance of improving digital connectivity, with more rural populations relying heavily on good internet and mobile phone connections to run their businesses and live their lives. He said that TfN helps the county make the case for more investment and talks about how leaders across the North are working together to improve transport connections as a means to boost business and quality of life in the region.