Planned transport schemes for Bristol, Bath and Weston would unlock 19, 000 jobs, an independent report has said.
He added that 70% of the current planned transport spending programme will be invested in public transport, helping to cut the number of single car journeys.
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According to the Financial Times, it will be the biggest planned gold transport on record.
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In France, a strike by airport-security personnel stretched into its seventh day, while in London, football club Arsenal postponed its Boxing Day game against Wolverhampton Wanderers by 24 hours because of a planned public-transport strike.
New railway links, flyovers, an underground railway, elevated walkways and sea transport have been planned.
Planned cuts to adult care, school transport, refuse collections and libraries will go ahead.
In August, the transport minister announced that a planned upgrade would be delayed due to a lack of funding.
But the city council said the increase was planned and the money was being used for transport improvements.
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Most importantly for Brent, it secures a major upgrade to the local transport infrastructure, with major work planned to the three local railway stations - including the Wembley Park Tube - and the adjoining road network to ease the notorious Wembley traffic congestion without causing major disruption to residents.
"I would scrap the planned western bypass, put more investment into public transport and cycle lanes and introduce a 20 mile an hour residential limit, " he told the audience.
Transport Minister Stephen Hammond said the Department for Transport remained committed to the use of private finance in transport projects "where it provides value for money and fits with our timetables for planned investment".
Some, including EC Commissioner of Energy Gunter Oettinger, have suggested that one day Greece could transport its wealth of solar power to the rest of Europe through sprawling projects like the planned Helios facility.
Other transport workers had joined the striking metro workers in solidarity on Friday and a big rally was planned to protest against a public sector unified wage scheme that would see their salaries reduced by up to 25%.
Delays to the transport aircraft, the A400M, which is due to enter service in March 2015, six years later than planned, have meant the MoD has had to acquire extra aircraft to ease pressure on the RAF's transport fleet.
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Last week Mr Jospin hit his first squall, when he was forced to sacrifice Air France's able Christian Blanc, who resigned as the airline's head in protest against the Communist transport minister's refusal to let him sell it off outright, as the previous government had planned.
But analysis by IPPR North shows almost half of major transport projects involving public funding benefit only London and the south-east, accounting for 84% of planned spending.
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