The government's own transport advisor has savaged its 10-year plan.

The Commission for Integrated Transport has claimed the pledges unveiled by then-transport secretary John Prescott are "over-promised" and "under-delivering".

Forum Response: Institute of Directors

A spokesman for the IoD told ePolitix.com: "Business remains extremely sceptical of the government's ability to deliver improvements across many key areas of its transport plan.

"There is serious concern over the lack of momentum in the much-heralded 'Ten Year Plan'.

"Big decisions need to be made. Road pricing, for example, might provide a solution to the chaos by generating revenue for further road and rail investment."

Forum Response: Construction Products Association

Chris Bennett, external affairs executive at the Construction Products Association, told ePolitix.com: "The Association shares the Commission's concern that the government appears unlikely to meet many of the targets set out in the Ten Year Transport Plan.

"The government should use the ten year plan review to revise targets where necessary and identify particularly weak delivery mechanisms which need to be reformed."The Association is very concerned that the introduction of single capital pot funding to local authorities will render the government unable to ensure that its national priorities are being delivered. The CfIT's report appears to confirm this.

"Their survey of local authority transport heads finds that 62 per cent of them are concerned that transport funding is being reallocated to education and social service budgets.

"As such we echo the CfIT's call for a re-examination of local transport funding mechanisms so that in future they include appropriate incentives to ensure transport remains an equal priority as other areas of expenditure."