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FTA wants 10 year plan Tsar
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• The Freight Transport Association has called on the government to appoint a "10 'fear Plan Tsar to oversee its £180bn spending on transport over the next decade.
Its comments came at a Transport Select Committee hearing into the government's use of controversial multimodal studies in a bid to come up with road-rail solution' to transport problems.
The FTA believes the p of the studies has been far slow—it alleges that in so cases they have been user delay spending or commit to controversial projects.
Policy director Jar Hookham warns: "We di think the government will rr
corn tments if the current plan* and decision-making ocess prevails. However are is a danger that if we .ite off the studies now we II be back to square one." The ETA has also criticised "blinkered" scope of some
studies that do not consider entire road corridors. Hookham cites the three separate studies on the M1, which led to three different recommendations: "When you break it up into three separate parts it makes it even more ridiculous," he says. "But just because there were one or two bad studies doesn't mean we should write off the whole process. That would not be in anyone's interest because it puts any decision off again."