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Environment is key for rail - Alexander

07 July 2006
 

New transport secretary Douglas Alexander used his first speech on rail policy to stress that environmental performance will become an increasingly important issue for the industry to address.

He told an industry conference that rail had “no automatic right to be the green option” and noted that the car industry had made great strides in producing cleaner more fuel efficient vehicles.

Alexander said that progress would have to be stepped up on reducing rail’s CO2 emissions,...

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