Action needed on rolling stock orders: Campaign for Better Transport responds
Reacting to the Railway Industry Association report, ‘The UK Rolling Stock Industry – making 2023 the year of opportunity not crisis’, Norman Baker of Campaign for Better Transport said:
“We cannot continue with the current stop-go policy of investment in rail – it breeds uncertainty and pushes up costs unnecessarily. Rail is the transport of the future: clean, green, efficient and productive. But long-term thinking by Government is needed if rail’s full potential is to be realised. This report should be a wake-up call for Government: it must look further down the track and begin making decisions to secure the future of our railways and our rail industry.”
Norman Baker added:
“The Government has this week celebrated plans for an electric car battery factory in the UK, but there’s no point creating jobs in the motoring industry while losing them in the rail industry.”
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Notes to Editors
The Railway Industry Association’s report, ‘The UK Rolling Stock Industry – making 2023 the year of opportunity not crisis’, can be read on the Railway Industry Association website.
Campaign for Better Transport was founded as Transport 2000 on 6 February 1973. 2023 marks its 50th year of campaigning for all communities to have access to high quality, sustainable transport that meets their needs, improves quality of life and protects the environment. Campaign for Better Transport Charitable Trust is a registered charity (1101929) which operates in England and Wales.
