3. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: The Roads Review and National Transport Delivery Plan

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:33 pm on 14 February 2023.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 3:33, 14 February 2023

Well, I'm sure you've had a chance to look at—perhaps not in full yet—the reasons set out for the three schemes in the roads review. For example, on the Maes Gamedd road junction improvement on the A494, the review panel says that it

'should not proceed in its current form. The safety of the junction should continue to be monitored. Further options to reduce speed and improve the visibility splay at the existing junction should be developed if the collision record suggests that action should be taken.'

In our national transport delivery plan, we have said that we will consider

'alternative and small-scale options to improve safety, aligned to tests set out in the Welsh Government's response to the Roads Review.'

I think that it's another example of that we're not denying that there's a problem, and we're not saying that we don't want to work on a solution, but we need to make the solution proportionate, in carbon terms, to what's appropriate at that junction. And I think that that's what we will continue to do. So, I think that your constituents can be reassured that we're committed to work to find a safe solution, but one that meets the tests that we now have set out in policy.