An integrated Transport Policy

Do you rememeber 1997? The Labour manifesto promised better "connections, through ticketing and accurate travel information". Today we can read on the BBC that "Public transport has too many weak links making it difficult to switch from one mode to another, a report by an environmental group suggests. Travellers polled for a Transport 2000 survey said buses did not connect with train times and stations had insecure cycle parking and poorly-lit footpaths."

One of the arguments that people used to justify voting New Labour was that there was no longer a difference in ideology, all parties believed in "the Market", the difference was one of management of the ecomnomy and that New Labour would manage everything better. 10 years of failure in Transport policy and we are back where we started.

Here is a Guardian report from December 2002 looking back at the first 5 years of the Labour Government's performance on Transport. 5 years on are we any better off?