Transport

RAIL

• One in six trains run late under Labour, nearly 10 per cent more than in 1997.

• Railway crime has risen. There are now 24 violent crimes a day on the trains and tube - one an hour.

• Despite railways receiving a public subsidy of £3.5 billion in 2003-4, trains in London are now more overcrowded than in 1998-9.

• Labour promised a 50 per cent increase in rail use, but only a tiny 5.8 per cent growth rate has been achieved since 2000.

MOTORISTS

• Labour takes almost £8 billion more off motorists today in Vehicle Excise Duty and Fuel Duty than they paid in 1996-7.

• In 2000 Labour promised to reduce congestion 5 per cent by 2010, but congestion will have risen by 20 per cent by 2010.

• In 1998, the 140 approved road building and improvement schemes inherited from the Conservatives were cut to 37; the rest were superseded by ‘Multi-Modal Studies’, more bureaucratic appraisals which have so far cost over £35 million in paperwork.

• Despite the massive growth in speed cameras from 200 to over 5,000, 77 more people were killed on the roads in 2003 than in 2002.

• The Confederation of British Industry says congestion costs industry up to £20 billion a year and congestion on key parts of the road network is worse than before Labour’s Ten Year Plan to improve transport.

CONSERVATIVE ACTION

• Conservatives will remove speed cameras that raise money instead of saving lives.

• Conservatives will reduce bureaucracy by getting rid of ‘safety camera partnerships’.

• Conservatives will raise speed limits where it is safe on motorways, lowering them outside schools and hospitals.

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