New Policy Paper: Transport: Growth and Delivery
- Apr 16
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We're pleased to announce the publication of our latest paper: "Transport: Growth and Delivery - How can the UK improve connectivity, strengthen productivity, and accelerate infrastructure delivery across road, sea and air?"
Due to a wide range of regulatory constraints, it now takes longer to deliver critical transport infrastructure in the UK than anywhere in the else. This paper aims to outline the policy challenges facing road, sea and air transit.
A copy of the Paper and Response form can be found under Current Papers on our website: CPFPapers
Please do submit your response by 31 May 2026 to CPF@conservatives.com.
A summary of responses to this consultation paper will be sent to the Shadow Secretary of State, Richard Holden, alongside the Party Chairman, and the CPF Management Team soon after. We look forward to hearing your views!
I disagree with so much of your transport policy paper that I don't know where to start: almost the only point we agree on is the dangerous inefficiency of tolerating potholes.
Most possible transport policies have been tried somewhere in the world and it would be foolish to ignore the results. The Americans tried commuting to work in individual motor cars. By the 1980s, all their cities were grid-locked. When I was in Houston in about 1985 the city was debating whether to add two more lanes to an eight-lane highway or to replace two of the lanes by tramlines. Amazingly, rail and tram seem to be the best forms of transport for large towns, now and for the foreseeable…