How important are transport issues in the national and local context?
One in seven British adults, 15%, spontaneously identify transport/public transport as a pressing issue facing Britain today. It ranks as the fourth most important concern overall, placed just above drug abuse and education, and just behind unemployment. Of much greater concern to the public though are crime (36%) and health (28%). • Transport takes on even greater importance among those who live in rural areas and in London specifically. In both these areas, transport overtakes unemployment to become the third most important issue. • Similarly, for frequent rail users (local and long distance) and cyclists, transport again overtakes unemployment into third place in the priority stakes. Transport issues feature even more highly in people’s local agendas – as MORI typically finds in our local government research – although the single most important issue in the local context remains crime (28%). Nevertheless, combining traffic congestion, mentioned by 15%, with lack of adequate public t
