Future Public Transport Provision

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 20 March 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:03, 20 March 2019

That’s very interesting, and I’m very glad to hear that we are using the easily available data to track the future transport needs in the area east of Cardiff, between Cardiff and Newport, because, clearly, there is a major congestion problem that we face in both our cities and, at the moment, there is a gap in the metro map north-east and east of Cardiff where we obviously are going to need future provision. And in your answer to Leanne Wood, you said that, obviously, there’s a commitment by the Government to do this. So, having got all this important data from the mobile phones, how exactly are you using this to commission work by Transport for Wales and by the Cardiff capital region to get in place the transport that we need now to get people out of their cars, so they're not poisoning us all with air pollution?