Let’s have more transport - its in short supply because it’s a badly run government monopoly.

Jul 17 2007

Let’s have more transport - its in short supply because it’s a badly run government monopoly.

Published by John Redwood at 7:49 am under Blog

<h4>The Politics Show - Redwood calls for greater transport capacity??

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Summary
The chair of David Cameron’s economic competitiveness policy group has called for greater capacity to be installed into Britain’s transport system.

John Redwood told BBC One’s ‘The Politics Show’ that his position did not stand in conflict with the party’s policy group on the environment.

"Britain does need more transport capacity of all kinds," he said.

"We don’t have enough train capacity in the mornings and evenings to take people to and from work, we don’t have enough road space to take goods to market, we don’t have enough port capacity to take things by ship rather than by road.

"So we are saying there needs to be an immediate concentration on expanding capacity and we think that is a very green policy, I don’t think it is conflict in any way with what the green groups in the Conservative Party are saying.

"If you have more capacity, you have fewer jams, you have less congestion and the biggest enemy of the planet is congestion."

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One Response to “Let’s have more transport - its in short supply because it’s a badly run government monopoly.”

# Stuart Fairneyon 17 Jul 2007 at 7:36 pm

At last, someone with the courage to tell the obvious truth on transport. In the last decade, my journey has become more expensive and slower due to congestion. Clearly buring more petrol to make the same journey must be insane which ever way you look at it.
In the meantime a succession of transport ministers have lectured me about being a planet wrecking vandal and urging me to use inappropriate, expensive, over-capacity public transport (whilst driving around in ministerial cars!).

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