This review will focus on the rising costs of transport, the role of transport manufacturing, the threat of climate change, and making public transport services "deliver" for local communities.
Tom Clark writes:
The remit is general, but watch out for where Labour goes on trains.
Former transport secretary Andrew Adonis did all in his power to push high-speed rail, and appeared to achieve cross-party agreement, although delays in the planned implementation could set the trains running off towards very distant horizons. Labour's more middle class contingent regards faster trains as a means of boosting growth and reducing traffic, although traditional voices in big cites that are not on the map of the the planned high-speed system believe the priority has to be buses today. Should Labour put trains at the heart of its vision, and what should it say about air travel, whose popularity is little diminished by the reality of climate change?
