The
Green
Party

manifesto
says
privatisation
of
the
railways
has
failed,
and
that
the
railways
should
be
the
‘backbone
of
a
sustainable
transport
system’.

Its
MPs
will
support
investment
in
a
‘modern,
efficient,
publicly
owned
railway,
with
affordable
fares’.

The
party
is
also
in
favour
of
‘more
rapid
electrification’
and
a
‘national
strategic
approach’
to
identifying
lines
and
stations
which
could
be
re-opened,
with
regional
and
local
government
taking
a
leading
part
in
this.

There
would
be
more
support
for
companies
with
lorries
to
move
away
from
using
internal
combustion
engines
to
transporting
their
goods
on
freight
trains.

Train
operators
with
National
Rail
contracts
would
be
brought
back
into
public
ownership
gradually,
by
allowing
their
contracts
to
expire.
Rolling
stock
leasing
companies
would
not
be
nationalised
outright,
but
replacement
rolling
stock
ordered
in
the
future
would
no
longer
be
leased
from
them.

The
Party
says
‘it’s
time
to
shift
the
transport
system
away
from
cars
and
roads.
Green
MPs
will
push
to
restore
the
fuel
duty
escalator.’

The
Greens
would
also
would
push
for
local
authority
control
and
proper
funding
for
bus
services,
increasing
these
in
urban
areas,
and
also
ensuring
that
‘there
is
a
bus
service
to
every
village’.

An
additional
£19
billion
would
be
spent
over
five
years
to
improve
public
transport,
and
some
of
this
funding
would
be
reallocated
from
road
schemes.

There
would
be
a
ban
on
domestic
flights
for
journeys
that
would
take
less
than
three
hours
by
train.