Recently the e Daily Telegraph recently produced a list of all the transport policies since the Labour party came into power in 1997. The most recent, published last week, is the 9th transport strategy paper since then and, according paper, “failed to reach clear conclusions on issues like new road-building, instead promising only a fresh wave of consultations.”
You can get an idea how dreary the latest document - called -Towards a Sustainable Transport System: Supporting Economic Growth in a Low Carbon World - is from this extract. “By December 2008 we will publish a White Paper, setting out our decisions on the objectives and
challenges, and on option-generation. From January 2009 The focus will then shift to generating a range of options to address the challenges on the local, national and international networks. In this phase of the work, the views of transport ‘practitioners’ will assume greater importance. We will need the input of providers of transport services, suppliers (such as vehicle or rolling stock manufacturers and construction companies) and financiers. Their expertise is critical, because they know what solutions are most likely to be practical and affordable.”
It goes on for 90 dreary and boring pages.

You would never think from this that our road and transport system is in crisis with cars and trucks suffering from serious congestion and trains being over priced and overcrowded.
Read it yourself and you will see what I mean.