Lee Waters MS Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport. Ken Skates MS Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales. Llwybr Newydd - Wales Transport Strategy 2021 will deliver a transport system that provides a better Wales for generations to come. Your feedback has challenged us, but your overall support clearly indicates we are on the right path, y llwybr cywir. We want to thank the many individuals and organisations who helped us during drafting, and who have taken the time to respond to our consultation. It shows where we want to go - and how we will get there. It sets a long-term direction and three urgent and immediate priorities. Llwybr Newydd is the beginning of a journey - not an end. We will also hold ourselves and partners to account by monitoring the strategy as a whole. Four cross-cutting delivery pathways will help us follow through on our commitments on decarbonisation, equality, integrated journey planning and our rural offer, whilst nine mini-plans show how each mode and sector will deliver. A detailed five-year national transport delivery plan and regional transport plans will tailor delivery to the needs of every part of Wales. The key to any strategy is how it will be delivered. Together, these three priorities will improve our health, tackle poverty and open our transport system to all, particularly for those without access to a car and those living in rural areas. We will do this by making low-carbon sustainable transport more attractive and more affordable, and by adopting innovations that make it easier to use. Which means making it easier to do the right thing. If we are going to meet our climate change targets, we also need people to travel differently. Thirdly, we need to encourage people to make the change to more sustainable transport. We will use the sustainable transport hierarchy to give priority to meeting the demand for travel by walking, cycling and public transport ahead of private motor vehicles. We will make sure our transport infrastructure is safe, accessible, well-maintained and future-proofed, to adapt to climate change.Īnd where we need new transport infrastructure, we will take a new approach. We also need the transport infrastructure to support those services. To achieve this, we will need to invest in reliable, efficient and affordable transport services that people want to use, can use and do use. Secondly, we need to allow people and goods to move easily from door-to-door by accessible, sustainable and efficient transport. If more people can walk and cycle for everyday trips, we will reduce our dependency on cars. This is not about preventing travel altogether, it is about planning ahead for better physical and digital connectivity to support access to more local services, more home and remote working. So, how do we make that happen?įirstly, we need to bring services to people in order to reduce the need to travel.
This means one that is good for people and communities, good for the environment, good for the economy and places and supports a thriving Welsh language and culture. We need an accessible, sustainable and efficient transport system. It’s one of the most powerful and dynamic tools for community cohesion, social justice and inclusive economic growth that we possess. It connects people to one another, binds communities together and enables businesses to grow and expand. Our transport system is one of the most important national assets we have. But we won’t achieve that level of change unless we take people with us, listening to users and involving people in designing a transport system that works for everyone.
We need fewer cars on our roads, and more people using public transport, walking or cycling. If we are going to protect the lives of our children, we need to achieve net zero by 2050.Īnd in order to do that, we need to change the way we travel. The climate emergency is one of the biggest defining issues of our time. We have set out a new way of thinking that places people and climate change at the front and centre of our transport system. In Wales, we are literally taking a Llwybr Newydd - a new path.
We are proud to launch Llwybr Newydd: the Wales transport strategy 2021 that will shape our transport system in Wales over the next 20 years.
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