Discuss - Transport Transport Infrastructure Investment - Build more roads and railways

Should we increase investment in our transport infrastructure and build more roads and railways?

Alliance Party Alliance will re-balance funding away from roads and into more sustainable forms of public transport so that all transport choices remain viable. Source: http://allianceparty.org/page/transport

Conservative We're committed to the biggest investment in roads for a generation. Our new £15 billion Road Investment Strategy will increase the capacity and condition of our roads to keep the economy growing and help people get around and get on. We're investing £15 billion in over 100 improvements to our major roads, including hundreds of extra lane miles on our motorways and upgrades to some of our most important arteries. Source: Conservative Party.

DUP Invest in our roads and transport network,water and waste water, schools and youth services, health and social care as well as social and affordable housing.

Green Party "Green priorities would be for the road plans to be scrapped and the commitment to rail to be stronger, firmer, and clearer." - Source: Green Party, https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2015/03/20/transport-plans-for-northern-england-green-party-response/

Labour Tackling road congestion is a key Labour priority. We will extend hard-shoulder running on motorways, alongside targeted motorway widening including on the M25. We will press ahead with a major investment programme in existing rail services, hugely improving commuter services into and through London, and electrifying new rail-lines including the Great Western Main Line from London to South Wales.

Liberal Democrat Invest in major transport improvements and infrastructure to create a 'Northern Economic Corridor'; a focus for growth, innovation and prosperity across northern England. Develop a comprehensive plan to electrify all suburban and major rail routes, reopen many smaller stations, restore twin track lines to major routes and proceed with HS2, as the first stage of a high-speed rail network to Scotland.

Plaid Cymru "We will provide better roads, railways, airports, bridges and ports." Source: Plaid Cymru, http://www.partyof.wales/easy-read-manifesto/

Respect Party Invest in a cheap and integrated transport system to reduce the need to use cars, making the current road-building programme unnecessary.

SNP A cheap and integrated transport system to provide an alternative to car use, making the current road-building programme unnecessary.

UKIP UKIP will scrap the HS2 project which is uneconomical and unjustified

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