Infrastructure

Infrastructure is more than just how we move people around the country for the benefit of capital, more than just linking up businesses to trade amongst themselves. Our infrastructure - our public transport, our national grid, our waste management - is how our communities connect and share experience, and the basis of our ability to work together with new perspectives and ideas. It's time that our infrastructure was truly that - ours!

• There is more to public transport than simply increasing the rate that busses, trains, and trams shunt people from Town A to City B and back. Our public transport is about linking communities, preventing isolation in rural areas, whilst tackling air pollution in cities by pulling cars off the road. But all this is for naught if people aren't able to use our public transport, so we will begin with free at the point of use Public Transport for everyone in the country.
• The barriers to public transport are not always financial, but are sometimes barriers of feeling safe and secure, especially when travelling at night. We can tackle this head on by reintroducing conductors on public transport across the UK. Not only will this increase efficiency in paying fares until they can be abolished, by removing time lost in tickets being paid for, but it will also allow public transport drivers to be focussed on driving, as opposed to a multitude of other tasks.
• Freight Rail is one of the best resources we have for transporting goods, making use of rail infrastructure when it is otherwise empty, and lowering CO2 emissions compared to the equivalent number of lorries. However, the fact that our towns and villages are subject to a near constant level of noise and air pollution from such lorries indicates that they're not being used effectively. Let us bring Freight Rail under public control to goods moving again, without the urge to siphon profits providing a barrier to a public good.
• Home recycling has helped pull substantial amounts of plastic away from our landfill, so it's daft that many families only recycle part time, either because they're being charged to recycle, or because their recycling bins are already full when their black bins aren't. We will fund councils to have enough to be able to say weekly collection of home recycling bins, alongside ending any levies applied to collect specific bins.

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