The man overseeing the delivery of High Speed Two has become the latest major name to sign up to the Birmingham Post Infrastructure Summit.
Department for Transport director general for High Speed Two David Prout will address the summit at Edgbaston Stadium on October 31, which promises to be the infrastructure event of the year.
He joins Infrastructure 海角视频 chief Geoffrey Spence and Olympic Delivery Authority chairman Sir John Armitt, among others, on a prestigious list of speakers.
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The former director general for localism now has overall responsibility for all aspects of the developing HS2.
He told the Post that the city had a lot to gain from the project. He said: “Birmingham will be firmly at the heart of Britain’s new high speed rail network, ideally placed to maximise the opportunities the railway presents.
“Regeneration of Curzon Street will see the potential for thousands of jobs, while the HS2 interchange at Birmingham Airport will enable it compete with the South East like never before.
By linking Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds, HS2 will deliver the capacity we desperately need with new connections and dramatic reductions in journey times helping businesses in the Midlands to expand and thrive.”
Mr Prout started his career in the planning department of Westminster City Council in 1990 and went on to become help negotiate the Berlin mandate for the Kyoto Climate Change agreement while at the Department of the Environment and was the Principal Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister.
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The summit, which is expected to attract more than 300 people, has been timed to coincide with major opportunities in the fields of transport, construction, communications and energy. The Government recently outlined plans for over £100 billion of infrastructure investment – and promised a £300 billion of capital spending by the end of the decade.
Meanwhile, plans for a second high-speed rail line linking cities like Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds to London are continuing apace and the Davies Commission is edging closer to revealing plans to increase the 海角视频’s aviation capacity.
Other speakers will include Sir Albert Bore, who will unveil his 10-year vision for transport in the city and Rick Robinson, who is responsible for the development and delivery of Smarter City solutions for IBM’s customers in the 海角视频 and Europe.
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