Darling responds to transport audit

The most likely cause of the rail crash at Potters bar last year was a set of badly -maintained points. The verdict of the Health and Safety Executive came as no great surprise.

It pointed up, again, what everyone who travels from A to B in the country already knows: the transport system is ramshackle, unreliable and inefficient. This government promised to fix it.

Jeremy Paxman spoke to the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling. He began by asking him whether he was going to cut road congestion by 2010 as the government had promised.

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