One of my great frustrations is how long everything takes in transport. One of the tensions we have is we have climate science that tells us that we need to act urgently, and we have systems that take forever. If only we could embrace some of the innovation that we saw during the pandemic, when we saw pop-up bike lanes put in place at break-neck speed, in all fairness to local government, but we seem to have reverted to type. That is a real challenge for us, I think.

In terms of your specific point on rapid bus transport, I absolutely agree that that is an essential part of the mix that we need to see. I have awarded money in the current financial year, £1 million, for the consortia to work together on a regional footprint to identify pinch-points and potential regional bus corridors in order that we can then create a pipeline of schemes. I've also made an invitation to the bus companies to identify areas that they think would make a significant difference to their reliability and journey times. That needs accelerating. The purpose of the regional transport plans that we're going to be developing, and the vanguard work that the Burns commission has done in the south-east, is to start mapping out some of these regional bus corridors and then to systematically work together to make them happen. But I share your impatience with the length of time it's taking.