Number: WG40446 Welsh Government Consultation Document Llwybr Newydd – a new Wales transport strategy Date of issue: 17 November 2020 Action required: Responses by 25 January 2021 Mae’r ddogfen yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. This document is also available in Welsh. © Crown Copyright Overview This consultation seeks your views on the draft Wales transport strategy (Llwybr Newydd). The draft strategy has been developed in conjunction with stakeholders and is a key document which when finalised will shape the future of transport in Wales over the next 20 years. How to respond The closing date for responses is 25 January 2021. You can respond in any of the following ways: Email: Please complete the consultation form and send it to: [email protected] Post: Please complete the consultation response form and send it to: Llwybr Newydd – a new Wales transport strategy Welsh Government Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NQ Further information Large print, Braille and alternative language and related versions of this document are available on document request. Contact details For further information: Llwybr Newydd – a new Wales transport strategy Welsh Government Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NQ email: [email protected] telephone: 0300 025 6765 Also available in https://llyw.cymru/llwybr-newydd Welsh at: Llwybr Newydd A New Wales Transport Strategy Consultation Draft Contents From the Minister 3 5. How we will deliver 47 From the Deputy Minister 4 5.1 Investing sustainably 49 Summary 5 5.2 Delivery and action plans 51 Introduction 6 5.3 Working in partnership 53 Terms you will find in this strategy 8 5.4 Better governance and policies 54 1. Vision 11 5.5 Building skills and capacity 55 2. Ambitions for transport in Wales 13 5.6 Holding ourselves and our partners 2.1 Good for people and communities 14 to account 56 2.2 Good for the environment 16 6. The five ways of working 59 2.3 Good for the economy and places in Wales 19 6.1 Involvement 60 2.4 Good for culture and the Welsh language 21 6.2 Collaboration 61 3. Our five-year priorities 24 6.3 Prevention 62 Priority 1: Planning for better connectivity 25 6.4 Integration 63 Priority 2: Public transport services 28 6.5 Long-term 64 Priority 3: Safe, accessible, well maintained 7. Mini plans: Transport modes and managed transport infrastructure 31 and sectors 65 Priority 4: Making sustainable transport 7.1 Active travel 66 more attractive 34 7.2 Bus 70 Priority 5: Support innovations 37 7.3 Rail 74 4. What we will measure 40 7.4 Roads, streets and parking 78 4.1 Quantitative measures 41 7.5 Third sector 82 4.2 Good for people and communities 42 7.6 Taxis and private hire vehicles 86 4.3 Good for the environment 43 7.7 Freight and logistics 90 4.4 Good for the economy and places 44 7.8 Ports and maritime transport 94 4.5 Good for culture and the Welsh language 46 7.9 Aviation 98 Llwybr Newydd - A New Wales Transport Strategy 2 Croeso From the Minister We are in a time of rapid implications for transport. But But it is important not to lose sight change, with jobs, livelihoods, we will still need to stay active, of our core vision – an accessible, and social connections at risk. to have an effective and efficient sustainable transport system that is public transport network, to move good for people and communities, As I write, we have put in place freight and cargo, and to travel good for the environment, good short-term actions to help support internationally. for our economy and places and individuals, communities and supports a thriving Welsh language businesses deal with the immediate We will need to do this in a way and culture. In other words - good and longer-term impacts of that reduces carbon emissions and for Wales. Ken Skates MS COVID-19. At the same time, we the impact of transport on our Minister for Economy, Transport need to continue to plan for the environment, and makes a positive and North Wales future. Transport will always play contribution to the economy, to a critical role in our lives. It shapes social justice and to our health and our communities, facilitates our well-being. economy and helps us to achieve our individual potential. Restrictions Llwybr Newydd – the Wales on travel have shown us how Transport Strategy Consultation important transport is to us and Draft sets out my long-term vision they have also inspired new ways for doing this and the policy of working. framework as a context for future decisions. There is no doubt that even after restrictions are lifted, there I am very aware that our priorities will less commuting and more may need to flex in response to homeworking. If that trend a changing situation – and that continues, it will have important flexibility is built into this Strategy. Llwybr Newydd - A New Wales Transport Strategy 3 Croeso From the Deputy Minister COVID-19 has had a huge impact We do not want to return to the people. We can’t change unless on all of our lives. For many of us old ‘normal’ in terms of transport we understand why people turn it has brought tragedy, and real emissions nor previous levels of away from active travel and economic, social, and personal road traffic. public transport, and then challenges which will change us tackle those barriers. all for years to come, and we are We want to take this opportunity only just beginning to understand to consolidate what has been We are seeking to take forward those changes. achieved through the change in something positive for the future Lee Waters MS people’s travel behavior and in – putting active travel – and our Deputy Minister for Economy Amongst this, it has also order to do that, we need health – at the forefront of travel and Transport shown what happens when to think differently, and do policy. And a new approach our transport patterns change – things differently. that wants us all to make more particularly when we stop driving use of public transport because so much. Our air quality has Llwybr Newydd is not business as it is good for us, good for our dramatically improved, and our usual. It is a new approach that communities, good for the carbon emissions have fallen. recognises the role of transport environment and good for in climate change, and tackles the economy. that head on. It is also about Llwybr Newydd - A New Wales Transport Strategy 4 Summary Our vision Our five-year Priority 3: safe, accessible, well- We will achieve all of this by holding maintained and managed ourselves and our partners to account, An accessible, sustainable priorities transport infrastructure that measuring not just the performance transport system. In order to deliver our vision and is also future-proofed to of transport services, but the ambitions, we will: support public transport and difference transport makes to people Our 20-year electrification especially walking and communities, to the environment, Priority 1: reduce greenhouse and cycling. to the economy and places, and to ambitions gas emissions by planning ahead culture and the Welsh Language. An accessible, sustainable for better physical and digital It is not enough to just support transport system is one that is connectivity, more local services, sustainable transport services and We will deliver this by investing good for people and communities, more home and remote working infrastructure. We also need to drive sustainably, through specific action good for the environment, good and more active travel, so that modal shift and behavior change by: plans including our Decarbonisation for the economy and places in fewer people need to use their Pathway and by working in Wales, and good for culture and cars on a daily basis. Priority 4: making sustainable partnership, updating our policies and the Welsh language, contributing transport choices more attractive guidance, building capacity and skills, to each of the seven national But where people and businesses do and affordable to more people and by holding ourselves and others well-being goals set out in the need to travel, we will and businesses, whilst respecting to account. We will also adopt the five Well-being of Future Generations the fact that many people ways of working in the Well-being of (Wales) Act 2015. Priority 2: grow public transport including those in rural areas or Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. use in Wales by providing services disabled people, may not have that everyone can use, wants to options, and Llwybr Newydd is backed by nine use, and does use, based on: mini-plans for transport modes and Priority 5: supporting innovations sectors in Wales – active travel; bus; that help more people and rail; roads, streets and parking; the businesses adopt more third sector; taxis and private hire sustainable transport choices. vehicles; freight and logistics; ports and maritime transport; and aviation. Llwybr Newydd - A New Wales Transport Strategy 5 Introduction The Wales Transport Strategy (WTS) is a statutory document required by the Transport (Wales) Act 2006 (The Act). The Act places a duty on the Welsh Ministers to prepare and publish a WTS setting out its policies and how they will be discharged. Covering all modes, it sets out our strategic priorities and desired outcomes, providing a link to the wider priorities as well as plans at the local authority level. Section 2(3) of the same Act requires the Welsh Ministers to keep the WTS under review and provides the ability to revise it from time to time.