Road investment growing faster than rail
Posted by DavidM in Transport | 9 July 2008
The government has a stated aim to encourage rail travel over road, but figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show their investment is focused in the opposite direction.
Since 2002 government investment in roads has grown by over 60%, yet in the same period railway funding has grown only 10%.
Admittedly I don't know what the private sector investment in railways has been but even so, we'll never encourage more people to switch from inefficient cars to low-emissions railways if the services continue to operate at capacity, with overcrowding and delays.
The services I use have improved their punctuality over the last few years but are still very crowded. The government needs to focus investment on making our core rail networks world class.
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