Friday, January 9, 2009

Free Transport proposed for Wales !


Free public transport for Wales, politicians urge in radical plan
Jan 9 2009 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail

...Mrs Law said: “A free, efficient, fully linked-up, public transport system would put Wales at the forefront of the sort of revolution in environmental thinking and sustainability that we simply have to grasp. We cannot afford to squander five or 10 years with a halfway house set of proposals which tinker with the challenges we face.”
...Capital costs could be raised by cancelling, scaling down or postponing at least some of the highly expensive transport projects which the Assembly Government is committing itself to... Wales online

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