Frustration after transport plans are pushed back

A MAJOR plan outlining how to improve Newcastle's transport network over the next 20 years has been delayed.

- DANIEL HOLLAND

Council chiefs have been preparing for months to reveal their long-promised 'movement strategy', a vision that will shape changes to the city's travel infrastructure between now and 2045.

The plans were originally meant to be published in the spring of this year, before being pushed back to this month. But it has now emerged that the strategy will not be made public until September at the earliest, having been pulled from the agenda of a cabinet meeting due to be held on July 14.

Opposition councillors branded the delay "deeply frustrating," while the authority's Labour leadership said it wanted to "carry out further engagement with councillors across the chamber to seek their support" before finalising the strategy.