{"id":62165,"date":"2026-03-19T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62165"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:13:57","slug":"new-board-member-confirmed-for-lrssb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62165","title":{"rendered":"New Board Member confirmed for LRSSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Light Rail Safety and Standards Board (LRSSB) have confirmed a new appointment to their board, with Head of Finance &amp; Commercial at South Yorkshire Supertram, Ian Law, the latest addition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ian has already played an important role in strengthening Supertram\u2019s future by helping to lead the successful transition into local authority control. He was previously in a senior role at Manchester Metrolink and has supported major light rail projects across the UK, including advising West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Williams, Chief Executive of LRSSB, said: \u201cAs the light rail sector continues to grow, our organisation will continue to evolve in line with its requirements, and Ian\u2019s experience will prove invaluable as we explore a range of commercial opportunities and work towards greater independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Law commented: \u201cHaving already assisted the organisation with business planning and commercial modelling, I\u2019m excited at the prospect of taking this work forward as a non-executive director. I\u2019m also looking forward to supporting the LRSSB team as they build on their undoubted success over the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light Rail Safety and Standards Board (LRSSB) have confirmed a new appointment to their board, with Head of Finance &amp; Commercial at South Yorkshire Supertram, Ian Law, the latest addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62166,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165\/revisions\/62166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}