The senior politician who has led the Welsh Government's decision to stop building new roads has claimed for nearly 12,000 miles of car journeys but only three train trips in the last four years.
Deputy Minister Lee Waters, who has responsibility for transport, has put 11,779.4 miles of car journeys on his Senedd expenses since he joined the Welsh Government cabinet in December 2018. The travel appears to be largely between his family home in Penarth and his constituency home in Llanelli. In the same period, Mr Waters has claimed for three train trips.
Mr Waters, a former head of sustainable travel charity Sustrans Cymru, has used his transport brief to call on people to "stop doing the same thing over and over" and to articulate the importance of people switching to public transport. When WalesOnline approached him for a response to his own travel habits, he said it was "often less practical to travel sustainably... for people with longer and more complex journeys", but that he has bought an electric bike which he took on the train to Llanelli.
