'Transport is outside politics'
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• Transport planning is too important to be left to party politics, says transport minister Steven Norris.
Norris said at the annual conference of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers that road building, congestion and pollution all needed solutions broad-based enough to transcend electoral changes of power.
He was critical of efforts to make cleaner vehicles. He said: "It's always astonished me that we can put a man on the moon but can't make an electric vehicle that doesn't look like a milk float".
"The real solutions to transport problems do not depend on your political view. I am not interested in the Marxist-Leninist view of traffic control or the Adam Smith view on traffic lights. Transport solutions should be practical not political," said Norris.
Norris has announced his intention to retire from national politics at the next election.