Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:18 pm on 28 February 2017.
Can I echo some of Julie Morgan’s comments? I was glad that, towards the end of the statement, you do turn to some of the sustainability issues and refer to the well-being of future generations, the need to tackle poor air quality, and to see public transport as part of the efforts to achieve decarbonisation. I do hope we’ll see this fully in the fully worked-out plans that you’re going to bring forward, because I would say that, if it’s just what we can judge on in this statement, we seem to have references rather than commitments to how the future generations Act is going to really transform some of our urban and rural spaces and make them more amenable to be accessed in a way that doesn’t mean we’re constantly choked or threatened by motor transport and an over-reliance on it. I do see very ambitious and effective public transport buses often leading the way, but obviously rail and light rail too being essential to the economic and social renewal that we want in the years ahead.