Transport and environment

Plaid Cymru

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Deliver tidal lagoons in Swansea Bay, Cardiff and Colywn Bay
  • Reform Red Meat Levy so £1m of funding stays in Wales
  • Reduce plastic waste with a deposit return scheme
  • Oppose construction and use of pylons in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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Transport and environment

Labour

Main pledges

  • Bring rail companies back into public ownership, including ScotRail
  • Extend the HS2 high-speed rail line to Glasgow and Edinburgh
  • Ban onshore fracking and safeguard the North Sea oil and gas industry
  • Support Scotland's rural ferry services such as CalMac and keep them in public hands
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Transport and environment

Sinn Fein

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the NI Assembly, which is still without an executive after the power-sharing coalition broke down

Key campaign points

  • Not addressed in the manifesto
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Transport and environment

Lib Dems

Main pledges

  • An Air Quality Plan to prevent deaths by reducing air pollution
  • Ensuring British farming remains competitive and doesn't lose out in the event of Britain leaving the EU
  • A diesel scrappage scheme, and a ban on the sale of diesel cars and small vans in the UK by 2025
  • Ensure that new rail franchises include a stronger focus on customers
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Transport and environment

SDLP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the NI Assembly, which is still without an executive after the power-sharing coalition broke down

Key campaign points

  • Maintain access to EU funding for environmental programmes
  • End air passenger duty to support NI airports
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Transport and environment

UKIP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Encourage a Wales-wide convention to plan a fit for purpose transport infrastructure that helps businesses increase exports
  • Invest in rail infrastructure, creating new routes using proven high-speed technology already used in Asia
  • Encourage city regions to explore innovative, environmentally-sound transport solutions, such as monorail system
  • Support innovations such as the tidal lagoon project proposed for Swansea Bay
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Transport and environment

Conservative

Main pledges

  • Continue strategic national investments including High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and the expansion of Heathrow Airport
  • Support a Road Maintenance Fund in Scotland, inviting local authorities to bid for money to fix potholes etc
  • Do not believe that more large-scale onshore wind power is right for Scotland
  • Support the shale gas industry in Scotland, including by using powers devolved in the 2016 Scotland Act
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Transport and environment

DUP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the NI Assembly, which is still without an executive after the power-sharing coalition broke down

Key campaign points

  • Not addressed in the manifesto
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Transport and environment

Alliance

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the NI Assembly, which is still without an executive after the power-sharing coalition broke down

Key campaign points

  • Cut carbon emissions by adapting NI's energy use
  • Protect existing EU environment directives by placing them into NI law after Brexit
  • End air passenger duty to support NI airports
  • Increase the range of direct flights and connections available from NI
  • Invest in better public transport links to NI airports
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Transport and environment

Lib Dems

Main pledges

  • Introduce a diesel scrappage scheme
  • Extend ultra-low emission zones to 10 more towns and cities
  • Set legally binding target of zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
  • Oppose fracking
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Transport and environment

Green

Main pledges

  • Pass an Environment Protection Act to safeguard and restore the environment
  • Ban fracking and scrap plans for new nuclear power stations
  • Renationalise the railways
  • Cancel HS2 and all airport expansions
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Transport and environment

Labour

Main pledges

  • Renationalise Britain’s railways as franchises expire
  • Let local councils take over bus services if they wish to
  • New clean air act to legislate against diesel fumes
  • Ban fracking
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Transport and environment

UUP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the NI Assembly, which is still without an executive after the power-sharing coalition broke down

Key campaign points

  • Not addressed in the manifesto
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Transport and environment

Conservative

Main pledges

  • Investing £40bn across the rest of this decade on transport improvements
  • Work with train companies and employees to agree to minimum service levels during industrial disputes
  • Expand Heathrow airport
  • Remove the "complexity and perverse pricing" of rail tickets
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Transport and environment

Lib Dems

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Devolve funding of Network Rail in relation to the Wales railway network
  • Electrify the north Wales main rail line and funding for a feasibility study into re-opening rail links between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen
  • Abolish tolls on the Severn Bridge, after the costs have been recouped in 2018
  • Invest in the South Wales Metro
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Transport and environment

SNP

Main pledges

  • Keep EU environmental rules
  • Set up a new Independent Aviation Noise Authority
  • Keep cutting carbon emissions and push UK government to do the same
  • Continue to invest in new roads
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Transport and environment

UKIP

Main pledges

  • Oppose Heathrow Airport expansion in favour of expansion of regional airports
  • Scrap HS2
  • Remove road tolls on public roads
  • Repeal the Climate Change Act’
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Transport and environment

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Abolish the Severn Bridge tolls
  • Deliver tidal lagoons, rail electrification and the Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Plant
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Transport and environment

Conservative

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Scrap tolls for all vehicles using the Severn Crossings
  • Road improvements throughout Wales and continued modernisation of railway infrastructure
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