At least that will be one thing less for the next Government to worry about.
At Transport Questions yesterday, the junior Transport Minister, Sadiq Khan, told the House that he had listened to representations from Newport East MP, Jessica Morden (presumably ignoring the rest of us) and was proposing to introduce the legislation necessary for the introduction of card payments on the Severn Bridge toll by April.
One further bit of good news was the announcement by his colleague, Chris Mole, that the Department for Transport is working up a proposal for the redoubling of the Swindon to Kemble railway line and hopes to provide further information about it “in the near future”.
The line is an important weekend link on the London to South Wales route and upgrading it would be widely welcomed by Welsh travellers, for whom it has long been a cause for complaint.
It’s almost as if an election were in the offing.
