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COT ousted from 10-year plan
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The team entrusted with monitoring the government's much vaunted 10-year transport plan has been stripped of its responsibility. So who will take on this critical role? And is the FTA right to be alarmed? Jennifer Ball reports.
THE COMMISSION for Integrated Transport (UT) has been ousted from its role of monitoring the government's 10-year transport plan.
The Department for Transport points out that a number of other organisations had an overlapping role in monitoring the plan. It adds that when some members were asked to be critical of their own organisations it generated tensions within the OTT board, which could only undermine airs potential role as policy advisor.
The CfIT will retain its responsibility for advising the government on transport policy options, technology and transport issues which cross departmental boundaries. and through its reports and other work.
Professor David Begg. head of CUT says he is "relaxed" about the move — he accepts that it had proved impossible to combine the commission's advisory and monitoring roles.
Freight Transport Association chief executive Richard Turner agrees that the CfIT tried to cover too much ground: "The problem, however, is that now there isn't really anyone monitoring the progress of the 10-year plan... it has been fudged. It is also desperately unclear what the deliverable objectives actually are."
A MT spokesman says the plan will be scrutinised by the transport select committee of MPs, the Confederation of British Industry, the public and the media.