There was no word
on rail electrification in Wales, while the announcement on the Deeside Enterprise Zone showed the Chancellor playing catch up with the Welsh Labour Government.
And the UK Tory government is letting Wales down badly, failing to support projects like the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon and breaking their promise
on rail electrification.
Not exact matches
Mr Jones added that he hoped the Welsh Government and the UK Department of Transport can move forward
on Valleys
rail electrification with the help of the new Secretary of State.
The government announced plans
on Sunday for a # 9bn investment in the
rail network, including
electrification of railway lines and a fund to pay for reopening lines and stations, which Cameron declared would be the biggest
rail spending spree since Victorian times.
The Welsh Labour Government has still not instructed Network
Rail to start work
on the Valleys Line
Electrification project, despite an agreement over funding being reached in November.
As SoS she delivered
on referendum,
electrification of
rail & established a Comm
on Assembly fiscal autonomy
«In the transportation sector,
electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight
rail and conversion of
on - road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.
On the
rail side, I'm speaking from personal experience of the
electrification of a commuter
rail line in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr Birol and Minister Goyal discussed possible future collaboration
on rail transport, and Minister Goyal shared the government's efforts for
electrification and improvement of energy efficiency, and plans for India and the IEA to collaborate
on a Global Railway Outlook to analyse prospects for the
rail transport sector and how it can contribute to a more sustainable energy future.