We Will be Seeking to:
- Maintain, manage, and improve the road network so that 65% of the motorway and trunk road network is in satisfactory structural condition, and that by March 2015 journey times on key transport corridors reduce by 2.5% compared with 2003
- Continue our support for the Comber Greenway in unison with the work of colleague, Reg Empey in the House of Lords
- Maintain a high quality of drinking water and improve compliance with waste water standards by investing £600m in water and sewerage infrastructure
- Invest £Xm in a programme of measures to bring about modal shift to more sustainable modes of travel and to achieve an annual average of 77 million passenger journeys by public transport
- Bring forward a Regional Aviation Strategy which protects both local residents and the regional economy
- By 2015, 36% of primary school pupils and 22% of secondary school pupils should be walking or cycling to school
- Fully utilising Project Kelvin in order to give us an advantage in attracting businesses to Northern Ireland
- Tackle disadvantage through concessionary fares on public transport, disability transport programme and investment in public transport priority measures such as the Belfast on the Move project
- Development of an Active Travel Strategy to promote walking and cycling
- Broaden out the focus of sustainable development away from urban areas
- Use publicly provided transport (community buses, health service vehicles) to transport young children to provision within two miles of their homes.
- Ensure free on street car parking to help local traders in towns across Northern Ireland.
- Upgrade Belfast to Londonderry Railway line with aim of providing hourly intercity railway services in each direction
- Continue to invest in major road infrastructure projects including A2 Greenisland to Carrickfergus road, Sydenham By-Pass, Westlink and A26 Frosses Road
- Lobby European authorities on review of TEN T network in Northern Ireland
- Review roll of railways in provision of freight transport with aim of achieving higher number of freight journeys by rail
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