South Thanet Labour
Party
Working for the people of the South Thanet Constituency
Keeping the country moving
TRANSPORT - Labour’s KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 1997—2010
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Transport spending up 43%
over last 3 years. Over 60% higher than 1997.
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More rail journeys than
at any time since the 1940s;
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Rail freight up 46% since
1996 97; and light rail use up 130% in the last 10 years
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UK’s first high speed
rail line (Channel Tunnel Rail Link Section 1) opened on time and budget
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More trains in England
and Wales arriving on time in 2006 compared to 2001
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Network Rail cut train
delays by 2.3m minutes last year (17%)
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Train Protection and
Warning System installed across the entire national network.
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£7.6bn being spent on
West Coast Main Line upgrade and is delivering faster journey times - 30
minutes quicker between Glasgow-London.
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CTRL Section 2 into St
Pancras completed 2007;
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CTRL Domestic services
started end 2009;
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Over 100 road schemes
have been completed. The M25 around Heathrow has been and M1 is being,
widened;
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Child road deaths and
serious injuries are 49% below the baseline. The UK roads are now the
safest in the world.
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Active traffic
management, regional control centres and Highways Traffic Officers
introduced to keep traffic moving.
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Bus use is increasing
year on year for the first time in decades;
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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.
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Terminal 5 at Heathrow
now open allowing the airport to eventually handle up to 30m more
passengers a year.
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More to come
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Crossrail
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Provided the Mayor of
London with the funding needed to deliver transport for the 2012 games –
including the East London Line (Phase 1);
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Tory record
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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.
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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;
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Highway maintenance
spending cut by 21% between 93/94 and 96/97 - roads were in their worst
condition for 20 years by 1997.
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And their big Idea for
keeping the traffic moving—the cones hotline!