‘Metro mayors’ elected: Are they game changers?

This month’s election of six new ‘metro mayor’s in England has been hailed as ‘a new era for politics’, with massive implications for urban transport
  
England has elected its first six ‘metro mayors’, with all promising far-reaching change to transport.West Midlands mayor Andy Street, previously MD of John Lewis, and Greater Manchester’s metro mayor, Andy Burnham, who stood down as MP in order to run, have already shown the potential po