Transport Strategy

Part of Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 7:15 pm on 5 December 2006.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling Shadow Secretary of State for Transport 7:15, 5 December 2006

The Government also promised to make our public transport system safer and that we would have a huge expansion of modern, urban public transport systems in our cities and our towns, but, in the end, they have broken promise after promise.

They started by cancelling road schemes, but then they changed their mind and reannounced them—and then, in many cases, they cancelled them again. They announced a raft of improvements to our rail network and then cancelled most of them as well, or kicked them into the long grass. They unveiled plans for25 new tram and light rail schemes and then cancelled most of them, too.

There is, however, one thing that they must have done more of in the transport sector than any of their predecessors: commissioned plan after plan, study after study and consultancy project after consultancy project, all in the classic "Yes, Minister" tradition of being seen to be doing something without actually doing anything at all.