Edwards: Delay risks ‘undermining Welsh economy’
Plaid Cymru’s Jonathan Edwards MP criticises the government for delaying the Great Western Line:
“This just adds insult to injury.
“When Danny Alexander was in front of the Assembly’s finance committee on Monday he couldn’t name a single infrastructure project of any sort that his government had left intact for Wales except for some signalling work outside Cardiff.
“It seems that the UK government has been intent on delaying because they’re trying all ways possible to avoid electrifying to Swansea – or even through Wales at all.
“The secretary of state needs to understand that these delays and uncertainties are not only unfair to travellers in Wales but risk undermining Wales on an economic level.
“They’re more than happy to spend a billion pounds on one train station in central London, but won’t spend the same amount to improve services that stretch for nearly 200 miles.
“My worry is that the new Con-Dem government want to go back to that plan and leave out Wales entirely.”
