A decade of progress but devolution remains a work in progress

The devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales have had ten years to establish themselves but key aspects of transport policy in the two countries remain in flux

Rhodri Clark

05 June 2009

The Welsh Assembly Government has channelled more than £100m into rail infrastructure to date

The Local Transport Act powers could be used to expand the TrawsCambria long distance bus network in Wales

A new Forth crossing could consume much of Scotland’s transport budget in the coming years

Scotland and Wales share many similarities in terms of geography: each has a relatively small population concentrated in a few urban centres, with the majority of each country being rural. So it is perhaps surprising that in many respects the governments of each nation are taking strikingly different approaches to how transport is managed.

Scotland’s Labour and Liberal Democrat partnership government had been enthusiastic supporters of regional transport governance but all that changed...