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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Minister must get things right on public transport in his own backyard first
July 14, 2006 12:00 AM
If the Welsh Transport Minister is to deliver his vision of better public transport and less cars on the road, then he needs to invest in his own City first, the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black, has said.
Commenting on the Assembly Government's vision for the transport network in Wales over the next 25 years, Mr. Black pointed to Andrew Davies' dismal record of investing in public transport schemes in his own City of Swansea as an example of an area where he can do better.
Recent Transport grant allocations gave Swansea Council only £5.7 million of the £16 million it asked for to rebuild the Quadrant bus station, complete the bus link to the City Centre from the Fabian Way Park and Ride site, build another Park and Ride site at Fforestfach and complete City Centre bus links. By contrast Rhondda Cynon Taf Council got £39 million to build the Porth relief road whilst Neath Port Talbot got almost all the £10.8m it asked for, mostly to spend on their peripheral distributor road.
"Considering this Minister claims to want to get cars off the road he is spending an awful lot of money on new road schemes," said Mr. Black. "I do not object to that where these schemes help a community suffering severe congestion and pollution, however I do object to his failure to find money to realise his own vision of better public transport in the City he represents."
"Andrew Davies is letting Swansea down in failing to fund key public transport infrastructure schemes in what is Wales' second City and a major regional centre. I am astonished at the way that he is neglecting his own area. It must surely be a coincidence that the main beneficiaries of his largesse are Labour-controlled Councils, however in awarding grants in that way the Minister is failing his own constituents."
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