TRANSPORT - Labour’s KEY ACHIEVEMENTS since 1997

            

· Transport spending up 43% over last 3 years. Over 60% higher than 1997.

· More rail journeys than at any time since the 1940s;

· rail freight up 46% since 1996 97; and light rail use up 130% in the last 10 years

· UK’s first high speed rail line (Channel Tunnel Rail Link Section 1) opened on time and budget

· More trains in England and Wales arriving on time in 2006 compared to 2001

· Network Rail cut train delays by 2.3m minutes last year (17%)

· Train Protection and Warning System installed across the entire national network.

· £7.6bn being spent on West Coast Main Line upgrade and is delivering faster      journey times - 30 mins quicker between Glasgow-London.

· CTRL Section 2 into St Pancras completed 2007;

· CTRL Domestic services started end 2009;

· Over 100 road schemes have been completed.  The M25 around Heathrow has    been and M1 is being, widened;

· Child road deaths and serious injuries are 49% below the baseline. The UK roads are now the safest in the world.

· Active traffic management, regional control centres and Highways Traffic Officers introduced to keep traffic moving.

· Bus use is increasing year on year for the first time in decades;

· Free off-peak local bus travel for older and disabled people since April 2006; and free off-peak travel by bus in any part of the country from April 2008.

· Terminal 5 at Heathrow now open allowing the airport to eventually handle up to 30m more passengers a year.

 

More to come

· Crossrail

· Provided the Mayor of London with the funding needed to deliver transport for the 2012 games – including the East London Line (Phase 1);

 

Tory record

 

· Bungled rail privatisation – breaking the railway network up into 100 pieces and selling it off at a bargain basement price, wasting billions of taxpayers money. After privatisation no new trains came into service for 2 years. By May 1997 Railtrack was £700 million behind on its rail investment and maintenance programme.

· By 1997 there was a funding backlog on London Underground requiring £16 billion of investment over the first 15 years of the PPP to reverse;

· Highway maintenance spending cut by 21% between 93/94 and 96/97 - roads were in their worst condition for 20 years by 1997.

· And their big Idea for keeping the traffic moving—the cones hotline!

email:  stephenladymanmp@souththanetlabour.org.uk

South Thanet delivery since 1997