Wales's transport infrastructure and services are rarely (if ever) renowned for their world-leading design or operation but even by historical standards, the last few years have been notably challenging.
However, with a new and energetic deputy minister holding the brief and the pandemic receding into history, is the Welsh Government starting to turn the corner or are the people of Wales condemned to spend another decade in the slow lane?
Our panel of experts discuss the recent announcement and criticism of the Welsh Government's roads review, the huge jump in South Wales Metro costs, bus service funding and franchising, and the ongoing travails of publicly-owned Cardiff Airport.
We also discuss the UK Government's increasingly bizarre classification of multi-billion-pound English rail projects (HS2, TransPennine Route Upgrades) as 'England and Wales' projects and consider what Wales could do if it received the same Barnett Formula consequentials as Scotland or Northern Ireland from the projects.
Our guests:
Ed Evans, Director, Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales: https://twitter.com/ceca_wales
Aaron Hill, Wales Director for the Confederation of Passenger Transport: https://twitter.com/TweetsByAHill
Paula Renzel, Transport Action Network Cymru: https://twitter.com/TANCymru
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