5. Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport: Connecting Wales, a strategic approach to Transport

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:55 pm on 12 December 2017.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 4:55, 12 December 2017

Cabinet Secretary, when you do the same thing, you expect the same results, and, as my friend Dawn Bowden has just mentioned, when you allow shopping developments on road-based developments, you're going to get more traffic. I note from your statement that the Welsh Government is anticipating a 150 per cent increase in demand in transport over the next 17 years or so. Are you considering how we stop demand, how we reduce demand, how we manage demand, rather than simply continuing the habits of the past, of this predict-and-provide model, where we model future growth and then try and build capacity to meet it? Because that isn't working and it's not consistent with the principles of the environment Act or the future generations Act and we need to reset our transport policy for those solutions, not keep trying the approaches of the past.