Business rates revenues are falling in the recession (bankruptcies etc) and transport users may well seem to be the only thing left to be squeezed.

There is a political wish to attract more public transport users.

The transport users consultative committees already represent passenger interests and there is recourse to an independent arbitration scheme.

Despite the work of the transport users consultative committees, they do not have the teeth that ombudsmen would have.

These contain recommendations to government and to transport providers to ensure that safety for all transport users is improved.

In particular, this report is a victory for disabled transport users.

Only through changes in the behaviour of our citizens as transport users will we achieve substantial and genuinely effective results.

It is the European Parliament that has put transport users at the top of our transport priorities.

If we could reduce the costs by 10 % for heavy goods transport, it would be an important incentive for potential combined transport users.

The case against HS2 should never have been left to lovers of countryside, rather than to other transport users or taxpayers in general.