Nick Bourne, the Tories’ leader in Wales, said a Welsh Conservative Government would use the bag charge to channel an additional £4m a year towards improving cycling and walking infrastructure.

‘It is intended that this sum increase in future, as resources allow. That’s £16m over the next assembly term, which could double with match-funding from Europe.’ He pledged improved facilities for bikes on trains and at stations. The existing transport budget would be used to ensure ‘where feasible’ that a footway was provided at every location where a trunk road passed through a community.

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