Transport (Wales) Bill

I welcome the enthusiasm of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, for these matters. He talks about the importance of an integrated transport policy, and I agree with everything that he says. However, he used the example of a train being four hours late. Does he suggest that in the integrated transport policy trains should wait for four hours before connecting? You can have a brilliant integrated transport policy but if, for technical reasons, because of the weather, leaves on the line or the train breaking down, there is a delay, is it not better to isolate the delay with that one train rather than bringing the whole network to a halt by waiting for up to four hours to make a connection? From what I have heard—I bow to the expertise of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, on these matters—it seems that the enemy of the integrated transport system is technical problems with those bits of equipment that make up the transport infrastructure. In his very interesting contribution, the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, gave the impression that people were working malevolently behind the scenes to make sure that trains did not connect—for example, ensuring that if you were travelling to Cardiff and wanted to go on to Swansea, things were organised in such a way that you did not make the connection. I was very interested in that.