A former Labour transport minister criticises the Welsh government as major road projects are axed.
The expert review panel, led by transport consultant Lynn Sloman, assessed 59 road projects and made recommendations on which projects to proceed with, which to abandon and which to reconsider in a different form.Mr Skates oversaw transport policy as economy minister until shortly after the last Senedd election in 2021.
"What we had is a diktat which says basically a decision has been made 140 miles away, that vitally important infrastructure works will not go ahead, and by the way there are no alternatives that we can tell you about today."Ken Skates said he would have "made sure that we collaborate with councils".
"So, I appreciate these are difficult trade-offs at times, and we all have local constituency considerations, and he is not the only one with that, but we have to be prepared to follow through on the policies that we've set out." The A494 near Ewloe in Flintshire is the third busiest A-road in Wales with an average of 65,500 vehicles a day travelling north - up 29% over the last 20 years.Areas of Cardiff have the highest proportions of people using a bus, train or cycle to get to work
"I would have made sure that we collaborate with councils, with communities, we collaborate with as many people, and we don't just rely on the expertise of a few."
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