Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 24 January 2017.
I’m glad that the growth is increasing, but the leader of Plaid Cymru doesn’t mention the metro. The whole point of the metro is to make sure that we have more frequent services and better rolling stock, that we don’t have 40-year-old refurbished stock running on the Valleys lines with no air conditioning, and that we don’t have a situation where the track operators and the stock operators blame each other for delays. So, yes, when we get control of this from next year onwards, we do want to see a metro system, one that’s extended in the future and one that offers a far better service than has been available so far. She will have seen the comments from the economy Secretary in terms of his views on the profits that Arriva have made, despite the below-par services, as she rightly points out, that have been on offer so far.