工党威尔士领袖呼吁威尔士亲民党政府开始修建M4缓解道路——在他所在的党七年前叫停该项目之后。
Labour's Welsh leader has called for the Plaid Cymru administration to start work on an M4 relief road - seven years after his party had axed it.
肯·斯凯茨告诉BBC威尔士说，为了解决纽波特的拥堵问题，“桌上没有其他选择”，并且他支持原计划的修订版。
Ken Skates told BBC Wales that there was "no other option on the table" to solve congestion in Newport, and has backed a version of the original plan with changes.
此举将被一些人视为试图让威尔士工党与前首席部长马克·德雷克福德部分遗产保持距离的尝试。
The move will be seen by some as an attempt to distance Welsh Labour from part of the legacy of former First Minister Mark Drakeford.
工党将在周三于威尔士议会提出一项投票，呼吁修建一条“合适的缓解道路”。
Labour will table a vote in the Senedd on Wednesday calling for an "appropriate relief road" to be built.
一份报告称，该道路的建造成本可能现在达到30亿英镑。威尔士亲民党指责工党虚伪。
A report said the road could now cost £3bn to build. Plaid Cymru accused Labour of hypocrisy.
斯凯茨的宣布是在威尔士政府数周前提出一些应对拥堵的方案之后作出的，其中包括提议关闭纽波特的一些交叉路口。
Skates' announcement comes weeks after the Welsh government set out some options for tackling congestion including proposals to close junctions in Newport.
这也意味着所有反对党——改革党、工党和保守党——都支持修建缓解道路。
It also means that all opposition groups - Reform, Labour and the Tories - are in favour of a relief road.
德雷克福德在2019年以成本和对环境的影响为由叫停了之前的M4缓解道路提案。
Drakeford axed previous proposals for an M4 Relief Road in 2019 on the grounds of cost and the impact on the environment.
威尔士政府还委托开展了一个为期18个月的项目，以评估可能的“基于道路”的解决方案——尽管它已经排除了黑色路线。
The Welsh government has also commissioned an 18-month project to assess possible "roads-based" solutions - although it has ruled out the black route.
一份在10月初发表的报告列出了新建高速公路的若干替代方案，并称缓解道路的建造成本可能约为30亿英镑。该报告还警告称，该路线不再通过规划系统得到保障。
A report published earlier in October set out a number of alternatives to a new motorway, and said the relief road could cost around £3bn. It also warned that the route was no longer safeguarded through the planning system.
报告中说：“随着时间的推移，新开发或其他土地利用变化可能发生在原走廊的部分区域，使得在未来以相同的高速公路走廊进行建设变得 progressively 更加困难或昂贵。”
"Over time, new development or other land use changes may occur within parts of the former corridor, making it progressively more difficult or expensive to deliver the same highway alignment in the future," it said.
但肯·斯凯茨表示，该报告“表明没有单一或组合的解决方案能够充分缓解纽波特附近M4的拥堵。”
But Ken Skates said the report "shows that no single or combined solution will adequately alleviate congestion on the M4 around Newport.
他说，如果我们希望解决该路线的拥堵问题，桌面上除了缓解道路之外别无选择。他表示，他认为原始黑色路线的修订版——即2019年经过审查并得到公众调查支持的新港以南拟建高速公路——应该是最终建成的道路。
"That means that there is no other option on the table other than a relief road if we wish to solve the problem of congestion on that route." He said he believed that an amended version of the original black route - the proposed motorway south of Newport that had been examined and backed by a public inquiry in 2019 - should be the road that got built.
威尔士工党领袖表示，所提出的蓝色路线替代方案——部分使用现有道路——并不合适。“实际上，黑色路线仍然是唯一合适的路线，”斯凯茨说。
Welsh Labour leader said the proposed blue route alternative - using existing roads in part - was not appropriate. "In reality, the black route remains the only appropriate route," Skates said.
“必须进行进一步的工作，以确保当下的所有环境问题得到满足并得到充分回应，但拥堵问题必须得到解决。”当被问及他将如何回应关于其政策转向的指责时，斯凯茨补充道：“好吧，这与我们在2019年的情况完全不同。
"Further work would have to be undertaken to make sure that all environmental concerns today are met and adequately responded to, but something has to be done about congestion." Asked what he would say to accusations of a U-turn, Skates added: "Well, it's a world away from where we were in 2019.
“当时，我们刚刚脱离欧盟，脱欧引发了巨大担忧，我们正在为无协议脱欧做准备。
"Back then, we had come out of the EU, Brexit was causing enormous concern, we were planning for a no deal.
“我们……已经进入紧缩政策近十年。根本没有威尔士政府能够用于建设黑色路线的所需资金。
"We were... almost a decade into austerity. There was simply not the sort of money that was required to build the black route available to the Welsh government.
“当时由于财务成本而不推进该项目是正确的。我坚定地相信，如果我们当时推进了该项目，它将在新冠疫情期间被叫停或取消。”斯凯茨表示，他希望了解威尔士政府目前关于缓解道路的受保护路线的状况——该路线在该方案被叫停后被搁置。
"It was right not to go ahead with it at the time because of the financial cost. I do believe firmly that had we gone ahead with it, it would have been paused or cancelled during Covid." Skates said he wanted to know from the Welsh government what the status was now of the protected route for the relief road - which was ditched after the scheme was axed.
在9月29日的辩论中，副交通部长马克·胡珀表示，黑色路线无法实现。“受保护路线的地位是在它被取消时丧失的，”他说。
In a debate on 29 September, Deputy Transport Minister Mark Hooper said the black route was not achievable. "The protected route status went when it was cancelled," he said.
“所以，我们谈论的是即使让该项目启动也需要数十年的工作。”斯凯茨在周六合作运动大会之前发表了讲话，届时他将表示，该地区的人们“应该被信任、被赋予权力并受到尊重，以决定影响他们自己的事务”。他们对缓解拥堵的需求只能通过修建缓解道路来实际满足。
"So, we're talking about decades of work to even get that off the ground." Skates spoke ahead of the Co-operative Movement conference on Saturday, where he will say that people in the region "should be trusted, empowered and respected in deciding what affects them". "Their need for congestion to be dealt with can only realistically be met through getting to work on a relief road.
关于适当解决方案的争论以及在环境、人文和经济问题之间取得平衡，应该由该地区人民来主导，因为他们最清楚自己社区需要什么。代表卡斯纽伊斯林选区的地方党议员佩雷杜尔·欧文·格里菲斯表示，工党的“虚伪令人震惊”。
"The debate over an appropriate solution and the balancing of environmental, human and economic concerns should be led by the people of the region, who know best what is needed in and for their communities." Local Plaid Cymru MS, Peredur Owen Griffiths, who represents Casnewydd Islwyn, said Labour's "hypocrisy is astounding".
“他们好像忘了自己曾执政27年，并取消了针对纽波特及周边地区拥堵问题的计划——如今却在反对派中掉头，”他说。
"It's as if they've forgotten they were in government for 27 years and scrapped plans to address the issue of congestion in and around Newport - only to now U-turn in opposition," he said.
“ Plaid Cymru 明确表示，什么都不做不是一个选项……我们正在考虑的行动可能在短短四年内将交通量减少10%。”他补充道。
"Plaid Cymru is clear that doing nothing isn't an option... the action we're considering could reduce traffic by 10% in just four years," he said.