ConDems are delivering for Wales (From South Wales Argus)
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ConDems are delivering for Wales
11:31am Friday 20th July 2012 in Letters
EVERYONE knows that the Labour government left behind an appalling legacy.
After 13 wasteful years of Labour in power, Wales was the only European nation, besides Albania, without a single mile of electrified railway.
After two years of a ConDem government, Swansea to London and the South Wales valleys will have an electrified railway.
I’m not a fan of either party party, but they seem to be the only government that have delivered this for Wales.
What we need is a better link between Cardiff and the national airport, with more flights to the USA, India and the Far East.
Andrew Thomas Nutt, Heolddu Road, Bargoed
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Severn40
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mocyoung says...
2:01pm Fri 20 Jul 12
Electrification of railways in Wales was first proposed back in July 2009 by the Labour government. It identified the South Wales area as being "priority."
Yet as recently as November 2010, our wonderful Condem government were considering scrapping that and only electrifying as far as Didcot, with transport ministers in Whitehall saying there was no business case for electrifying south Wales. It took a lot of campaigning to get this extended to Cardiff, and now to Swansea and the Valleys.
It has taken AMs, MPs and councillors from all parties to convince the UK government of the need for electrification. Finally it seems they have caved into the pressure, seen the light and decided that yes, the original 2009 plan was right all along.
Two years of dithering, and it has pushed back the process until 2017.