Vision vs. reality - why the Ten Year Plan must be reviewed
16 December 2002
The Freight Transport Association believes that tomorrow’s review of the progress of the Ten Year Transport Plan comes not a moment too soon. The day-to-day experience of industry, operating on both road and rail, is that of relentless congestion, failing reliability and spiraling costs.
Simon Chapman, FTA Chief Economist said, ‘The hands-off approach the Government has taken since 1997, has simply not worked - rather, it has exacerbated congestion. The Secretary of State, after only six months in the job, has already got the measure of the problem. A revision of the original targets must now go hand in hand with investment in order to get the UK moving again.
‘The Government has spent three years developing a transport strategy and a further two years identifying priority schemes. During this time transport investment has lost its way. We cannot turn the investment clock back and make up for fives years of lost time therefore the targets that the Secretary of State sets tomorrow must be a shopping list and not a wish list’
2010 Transport: Aspiration and Reality
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10-Year Plan vision |
Transport reality in 2002 |
| Road congestion |
6% reduction in congestion on all roads by 2010 |
2.6% increase in traffic per km of road since 2000 |
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5% reduction in congestion on motorways and trunk roads by 2010 |
4.4% increase in traffic per km of road since 2000 |
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8% reduction in congestion in urban areas by 2010 |
1.6% increase in traffic per km of road since 2000 |
| Rail patronage |
51% increase in rail passenger kilometres by 2010 |
No change in passenger kilometres since 2000 |
| Rail freight |
80% increase in rail freight by 2010 |
4.3% rail freight traffic growth since 2000
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Last updated: Wed Jul 21 14:20:09 2004
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