Are we getting short changed on transport?
Here are the latest available figures showing the amount of public money spent on transport in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
To put it simply, Scotland receives twice as much as Yorkshire. London gets three times as much.
Or to put it even simpler - for £1 spent on transport in the "White Rose County" - £3 is spent in London.
The past few days have seen 22 transport schemes in the region either cut back or put on hold.
Business leaders were disappointed to hear that plans to upgrade the A63 Castle Street in Hull and proposals to improve the A160 into Immingham port were delayed for at least five years.
Elsewhere, local authorities have been invited to bid for a £600m pot of money, which will be shared amongst a number of competing transport schemes, such as the Beverley bypass.
It hasn't been all bad news for motorists. Extra capacity will be created on many of our motorways - including the M62 in West Yorkshire - by allowing drivers to use the hard shoulder, effectively creating an extra lane.
But politicians from all sides were hoping that our regional economy had a solid case for getting a bigger slice of the shrinking transport cake.
I'm Tim Iredale, the BBC's Political Editor in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and presenter of the regional Politics Show. This is strictly a "no-spin" zone where the political viewpoint is more Humber Bridge than Westminster Bridge. Your comments and observations are more than welcome. 
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