Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the move to strip TransPennine Express of its franchise.
Improving rail links has been a long-standing key policy push for the organisatin, with external affairs director David Hooper having previously brought TPE management together with business leaders and MPs to stress the importance of links to Manchester and reliability of connectivity to Doncaster for London, with little improvement monitored.
Relations were further frayed when the direct Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport service was replaced with a Liverpool route instead.
