Mr Goodwill's appointment means that roads policy will be led by Yorkshire MPs at both Despatch Boxes, since last week Prime Minister Gordon Brown invited Doncaster Central MP Rosie Winterton to be his Roads Minister.
It emerged last night that Mr Goodwill had lost no time in pushing Yorkshire's case for more equitable transport funding between the North and South of England, the core message of the Yorkshire Post Road To Ruin campaign.
He raised the matter with Mr Cameron just moments after being invited to take the job.
Last night, Mr Goodwill said: "David Cameron said he wanted someone in the North of England in his Shadow transport team and I was delighted to accept. I asked him if he was aware of the Yorkshire Post Road to Ruin campaign and he said he was.
"I think there's no doubt he is keen to address the funding imbalance.
"My priorities will include rural transport issues and working towards making public transport more accessible, cleaner and safer – a desirable alternative - rather than forcing people on to substandard public transport by further punishing the motorist with stealth taxes."
Miss McIntosh, who will speak for the Tories on flooding, has also wasted no time in sticking up for Yorkshire by announced that her first act in the job would be to visit Doncaster today to see first hand the damage caused by last week's
storms.
She said: "I shall be talking to those people in the area who have been affected by the devastation, and discuss their concerns about the coming days and weeks, and the recovery effort once the floods have receded.
"As MP for a rural area in North Yorkshire that has also been affected by the recent bad weather, I have always been very concerned about the precautions in place during a flood crisis and whether the flood defences in vulnerable areas are adequate.
"The effects of the floods have been wide ranging and utterly devastating, and lessons must be learnt," she added.
Among other Tory junior frontbench appointments that began to emerge last night was the promotion of Rotherham-born Justine Greening, the Putney MP, to Shadow Treasury Minister under Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.
Higher education spokesman Boris Johnson, who is at the centre of
speculation that he will stand as the Tory candidate for Mayor of London, remains in post.
The appointments follow a reshuffle of the Tories' senior ranks earlier in the week, when a working mother from Yorkshire made history by becoming the first Muslim to be appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of any political party.
Dewsbury-born Sayeeda Warsi – who is not even an MP, but will be given a life peerage to enable her to sit in Parliament – was plucked from near-obscurity to join the Shadow Cabinet.
Ex-Whitehall security chief Dame Pauline Neville-Jones was also made a Shadow Security Minister. Yorkshire Post 06 July 2007