6. Debate on the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee Report: 'The Future Development of Transport for Wales'

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:44 pm on 3 July 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 3:44, 3 July 2019

I welcome this debate, because I think that there was very little opportunity given to stakeholders to have any input into the process at the time of the procurement, and that was for good commercial reasons, but it did prevent local stakeholders, who are obviously mainly people who travel by public transport, from giving their views on exactly what was needed. And so I'm hopeful that we will hear from the Minister about how there is going to be now much more public engagement in what people who are affected by the current state of transport—what they want from this process. In particular, obviously, the people I represent in Cardiff Central are particularly keen to see a joined-up transport system that marries up the rail system with the bus system, with integrated ticketing systems that will enable it to be possible to transfer from one mode of transport to another; obviously, good bicycle racks and good walking routes to get to railway stations, which obviously are not going to be at the end of every street, and therefore people need a mode of transport to actually get to the railway station. So, I think it's very useful to see the report from the committee, but I think there's a lot more that we need to do to ensure that ordinary passengers can have their say on the type of transport system that they want to see.