Miles of new bus lanes and more services promised
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Boris Johnson says a £3bn plan to upgrade England's bus networks will improve access and air quality.
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Too little ,too late !
So when the UK is already increasing its national debt, when more people are working from home, and when there isn’t enough money to give NHS (and other key, public sector workers) a reasonable pay rise, that’s the time govt want to announce billions going into public transport?
Just wait for today's Defence Review - that will provide another excuse for not paying our public sector workers properly
Don't worry, it won't happen. Just more hot air for the front of the Daily Express. We're post-truth and post-accountability.
If you want to criticise the pittance announced today, then you're going to be livid about the tens of billions they spend annually subsidising the private motorist.
'When more people are working from home' Q. How long do you think that will last ? If you can work from home, then your job can be outsourced to a third world employee who's paid a fraction of your wage, and without all your expensive T&C's H&S, Employee Benefits...........
4,000 more green buses in the next 3 years. Won't happen. But no surprise that it's being announced. There is a climate conference this year and talk is cheap.
I assume you'll be selling your car, have never driven a car, have never been in a car, and will buy a bike?
Your local council will need to raise your council tax by 5 percent to pay for the infrastructure changed required. If they don't do this then they get none of the new money, which itself is less than the Tory cuts to the bus services made in the last ten years.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
The green buses should arrive - TfL has electric, hydrogen and hybrid buses on its networks so the designs and ability to construct are there already, and 4000 buses isn't a lot. Note that after the bus cost, the biggest cost is the driver - so in the longer term lower-passenger routes need smaller, self-driving, buses (but this may be a while off, and passenger safety concerns without a driver).
As you say it is just headline grabbing and when put into the context of how much money the Tories have given to their mates in CV19 contracts you can see £3 billion is peanuts and will hardly make a difference.
You've forgotten the local elections in May! Got to find something nice with which to butter up the voters!
My old neighbour works on the buses in a London bus garage
He tells me that at the back of his garage, there is a mountain of batteries that have been pulled out of the new 'all singing, all dancing eco friendly hybrid buses that were promoted by the London Mayor.'
Not the current mayor but the one before that. Boris Johnson.
Hybrids continually break down.
He tells me that at the back of his garage, there is a mountain of batteries that have been pulled out of the new 'all singing, all dancing eco friendly hybrid buses that were promoted by the London Mayor.'
Not the current mayor but the one before that. Boris Johnson.
Hybrids continually break down.
Marvellous, 4000 new busses to transport 2 people at a time at great cost to the tax payer.
They may do if a government minister has a mate who owns a bus building company somewhere on the planet.
They won't be green given the batteries. Trolley buses could be. Trams could be. But whatever we can only afford them if they are made in Britain thus reducing unemployment and providing an industry ready to export
Lots more bus-lanes, presumably within existing road infrastructure - further constricting non-bus related traffic and increasing their emissions while increasing the number of privately run subsidised practically empty buses on the road with worse emissions than most other traffic.
Sounds like a "cash for the donors" scheme....
Sounds like a "cash for the donors" scheme....
I London bus lanes are now 24 hour and they have built bus stop islands in the middle of the road blocking traffic!
ALL done during lockdown!
One bus stops, everything else stops causing more pollution!
Madness!
ALL done during lockdown!
One bus stops, everything else stops causing more pollution!
Madness!
Yup. The last thing our towns & cities need is more bus lanes.
Perhaps it would be better to demolish some of the empty / deserted shops & turn them into car parks (with charge points in every bay).
Perhaps it would be better to demolish some of the empty / deserted shops & turn them into car parks (with charge points in every bay).
List the donors!
You'll find plenty of Labour fingers in those pies, let's talk about Mayor Joe in Liverpool, I reckon Burnham and Khan will head the same way!
You'll find plenty of Labour fingers in those pies, let's talk about Mayor Joe in Liverpool, I reckon Burnham and Khan will head the same way!
They recently introduced new bus lanes in Chester and have had to revert back because it was done with no new infrastructure and caused chaos even during lockdown where traffic was around 10% of normal. I'm ok with bus lanes but they have to build new infrastructure, there's just not enough room in town and city centres to take a whole lane away from multiple busy commuter routes
Still waiting for the billions promised for cycling and walking...
In my local area I have seen a huge investment in this.
Unfortunately, it is almost all misplaced. Bike lanes have been added by removing a lane from dual carriageway, increasing traffic. I have not seen any cyclists on this bike lane and indeed it opens out to a roundabout and is a death trap to switch to the appropriate lane there.
Unfortunately, it is almost all misplaced. Bike lanes have been added by removing a lane from dual carriageway, increasing traffic. I have not seen any cyclists on this bike lane and indeed it opens out to a roundabout and is a death trap to switch to the appropriate lane there.
forget that. The money now has to be spent on "consultants" to organise surveys to decide which bus routes to improve if the gov ever finds the money for that. Our local station was to be re-opened according to our local tory. After the election turned out the council would have to stump up big style for consultants to advise on it first. I guess hse had consultants in mind.
Oh yes, well our 'shuttle' bus just been axed!
Just fix the damn potholes. We're meant to drive on the left, not on what's left
Amen! I'm fed up having to cope with these dangerous roads!
Lots of the roads round here are worse than having the odd pothole - the whole surface is breaking up, one good frost & there will be no surface left.
Agreed. France, Spain and Italy have superb roads, compared with ours. A disgrace in a civilised, wealthy country.
So how is fixing the potholes going to help with combating climate change, reducing social exclusion and helping people who don't have access to their own transport? I think you're responding to the wrong HYS!
It gets worse than that - a local council need me has installed expensive new speed bumps on a potholed road. So they've got plenty of money to put the humps down but none to fix a few holes? Really? Typical 3rd rater local politicians trying to virtue signal instead of doing the jobs they were elected to do.
Your local council will need to raise your council tax by 5 percent to pay for the infrastructure changed required. If they don't do this then they get none of the new money, which itself is less than the Tory cuts to the bus services made in the last ten years.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
I couldn't agree more. I even spotted one just before an exit on the M25 recently. Also stop removing hard shoulders from motorways, its dangerous. When councils have to spend more in claims than it would cost to repair the potholes you know the transport policy is wrong. I'm surprised politicians ignore this issue as it also effects their beloved cyclists.
True! Every Sunday, driving home from doing shopping at my local supermarket, I come up a fairly busy road where a van is always parked at the side of potholes, making it a nuisance not to avoid without driving out into the oncoming traffic's lane. Perhaps enforcement should have a word with that van owner as well as fixing the potholes.
conservative government cut council finances
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!! They don’t know what to waste their money on next. We PAY for the roads and they are in a SHOCKING state, it’s a disgrace!!
Roads need to be repaired with asphalt that incorporates recycled plastic. It puts waste to good use, sequesters carbon, and last longer.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210302-could-plastic-roads-make-for-a-smoother-ride
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210302-could-plastic-roads-make-for-a-smoother-ride
Don't remember any potholes on the roads in the 1960's at all except after winter time.
and the work was inspected, then passed off before you got paid.
Today fill an hole 1 day and it's a bad again in less than a week.
And try to claim off local council for any damage to ya car, ya car can ya,
They got more moves than a tin of worms
and the work was inspected, then passed off before you got paid.
Today fill an hole 1 day and it's a bad again in less than a week.
And try to claim off local council for any damage to ya car, ya car can ya,
They got more moves than a tin of worms
There is one in Salford, Bedfordshire which is easily big enough to swallow a moped wheel, and about 200mm deep. the next moped which hits it is coming off, no question. This is simply unacceptable.
It is just headline grabbing and when put into the context of how much money the Tories have given to their mates in CV19 contracts you can see £3 billion is peanuts and will hardly make a difference.
You're not meant to be driving peasant!
Now get on the bus in the name of being environmentally friendly...
All policy pushing...
Now get on the bus in the name of being environmentally friendly...
All policy pushing...
Providing they use AI to intelligently monitor and adjust the services, plus consider who and what buses should carry (wheelchairs, prams, bikes, large bags, etc.), it may just work.
Any sign of my new hospital?
Any sign of the £350 million per week.....?
Don't worry. You won't be able to get there by bus anyway.
There will be 40 of them,remember. ??
New hospitals in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Cumberland currently under construction, ( might be finished, I don't know )....not sure where you live, but Rome wasn't built in a day. These are just hospitals I've physically seen as part of my travels, I'll bet there are more.
I thought they were building loads of those? Surely we weren't mislead!
Liar, liar pants on fire! We have 2 unreliable services with limited timetables with 1 excluded for Sat / Sun. Also since moving here 25 years ago we have been trying to get train station re-opened which was closed during the Tory decimation of railway service aka BEECHINGS!
Interesting choice of photo’ at the top of the article as it depicts the service which runs between Bude and Truro. There are around six buses in each direction daily with the last departing Bude at around 5.30pm. It will probably be a little while yet before anybody turns up at a bus stop on that particular route without first consulting the timetable - especially after 5.30pm in Bude.
How Corbyn was ridiculed for his wish to improve public transport and provide bus services for rural locations.
This tory initiative will prove yet another vehicle for the transfer of tax payer's money into the hands of tory funders.
This tory initiative will prove yet another vehicle for the transfer of tax payer's money into the hands of tory funders.
Quite.
If public transport was provided by publicly owned companies then the initiative would be seen as something other than another privatisation of profit / socialisation of losses initiative.
If public transport was provided by publicly owned companies then the initiative would be seen as something other than another privatisation of profit / socialisation of losses initiative.
Was he ridiculed for wanting to improve transport, or ridiculed for making fake photographs on trains that got proven wrong by the CCTV? Or also wanting to make everything free with bad costings. Case in point, free broadband. Worked out to 20-something pence per month per household. I don't know what you think your £20-40 internet bill goes towards, but providers aren't making 99% profit margins.
This may well be Labour policy as realised in a Tory way.
But Corbyn was never a realist and nothing he promised would have happened without massive compromise.
But Corbyn was never a realist and nothing he promised would have happened without massive compromise.
Which companies?
Usual pathetic anti Tory accusations with no substance.
Usual pathetic anti Tory accusations with no substance.
Corbyn was never laughed at because of busses,everything else but not buses
Now thats a name I had forgotten Corbyn Independent MP these days
Sure it wasn't because he lives on an allotment and collects man hole covers?
Still waiting for the billions promised for cycling and walking...
In my local area I have seen a huge investment in this.
Unfortunately, it is almost all misplaced. Bike lanes have been added by removing a lane from dual carriageway, increasing traffic. I have not seen any cyclists on this bike lane and indeed it opens out to a roundabout and is a death trap to switch to the appropriate lane there.
Unfortunately, it is almost all misplaced. Bike lanes have been added by removing a lane from dual carriageway, increasing traffic. I have not seen any cyclists on this bike lane and indeed it opens out to a roundabout and is a death trap to switch to the appropriate lane there.
Sounds like Bradford's A650....the council reduced it to 2 lanes (so causing added congestion to an already horrendously busy road). Not seen 1 cyclist use it. Clueless!
Yep. The big problem is Traffic and Planner should NEVER appear in the same sentence (apart from this one of course). I almost never use a dedicated cycle lane because the main road is often better surfaced, unobstructed, more direct and not prone to disappearing at random intervals.
If the 'planners' actually cycled, we'd get better cycle facilities.
If the 'planners' actually cycled, we'd get better cycle facilities.
Sounds just like the labour council here have done for decades! we have cyclists on pavements as someone in the council signed off the change of position of a kerb cutting of cyclists instructions: return to the highway and the council ordered the pavement to be 'dressed' so covering the instruction, and causing numerous puddles on pavements. Original cycleway map no longer on BCC website.
I see...
So the government will be funding the privately owned - with shareholders to keep happy - bus services?
That will keep some people happy - but not most commuters - as a good percentage of the funds will go into the coffers, to pay dividends to the shareholders.
Pitiful.
So the government will be funding the privately owned - with shareholders to keep happy - bus services?
That will keep some people happy - but not most commuters - as a good percentage of the funds will go into the coffers, to pay dividends to the shareholders.
Pitiful.
I like buses,I have my bus pass. I would like to see more buses owned by the nation for the nation.
There is one problem however.......Due to the fact people want the windows kept closed,they are mobile incubators for germs/virus,s.
I dont know what the answer is TBH
There is one problem however.......Due to the fact people want the windows kept closed,they are mobile incubators for germs/virus,s.
I dont know what the answer is TBH
Open top tour buses for all! That'll sort out the ventilation problem!
Air recirculation using filters that trap viruses. Should be used from here on in offices, schools, gyms, leisure centres, cinemas, restaurants, cafes, pubs .........
Bus lanes just reduce road capacity.
Cycle lanes have popped up on major 'A' roads in Bradford. I haven't seen a single cyclist on one yet. Commuters don't cycle in Bradford, it's just too hilly. These planners are driven by targets and environmental dogma, not common sense.
Cycle lanes have popped up on major 'A' roads in Bradford. I haven't seen a single cyclist on one yet. Commuters don't cycle in Bradford, it's just too hilly. These planners are driven by targets and environmental dogma, not common sense.
'I haven't seen a single cyclist on one yet' Maybe because they are all working from home???
Most cyclists I've seen, prefer the road, rather than some of these rather silly cycle lanes.............?
same in southampton but chief councillor is a cyclist so he doing it for his benefit
Bus lanes are a city thing. More visual than useful in confined spaces.
We do need a more joined up network that is affordable to use.
Try getting a bus after 6pm around market towns. A rarity!
There are villages that are expected to be grateful to have a bus calling once a day in each direction. When they are not at a time to be of use to anyone they get pulled through lack of use.
We do need a more joined up network that is affordable to use.
Try getting a bus after 6pm around market towns. A rarity!
There are villages that are expected to be grateful to have a bus calling once a day in each direction. When they are not at a time to be of use to anyone they get pulled through lack of use.
Not to mention in Bradford, round Pudsey, Thornbury etc, the arterial routes, all the bike lanes are just brand new parking spaces for the locals. I don't mind the hills, but the bike lanes are death traps, full of rusted metal, road sweepings, pedestrians. Those are some of the main reasons cyclists aren't in them.
Don't worry, soon they will install a counter and then pay people to cycle round in circles so that they can justify their existence. Just like they do in London!
Exactly the same in West Sussex in Horsham & Chichester. Erected & caused delay after delay; ran for 2 months then taken down because no cyclist used them. Roads are now back to freeflow as it was previously. County Council has not yet published the costs
Some problems with our cycle lanes
They are not separate paths - like they are is some European countries, just a painted line on the road
They abruptly start and end on busy roads - forcing cyclists to merge into heavy traffic
They allocate the most uneven part of the road to the cyclist (containing drains etc)
No wonder potential cyclists do not use them much
They are not separate paths - like they are is some European countries, just a painted line on the road
They abruptly start and end on busy roads - forcing cyclists to merge into heavy traffic
They allocate the most uneven part of the road to the cyclist (containing drains etc)
No wonder potential cyclists do not use them much
Common sense is not currently a requirement as a town planner! Purely the desire to 'hit those dirty, polluting, car owners'.
Oh, surely not?! I've just had a message that local transport is planned from census data....
Same in Derby, a few major roads into the city have had temp cycle lanes erected using plastic fencing narrowing the road. I have used that route both in car, on foot and on buses throughout many parts of last year - on weekdays, and weekends ... saw a total of 6 cyclists over a 4 month period use the cycle lanes - most either use the road (!!) OR use the footpath which is about 2.5m wide!
They should try an electric bike! Mind you, would you cycle in the winter? I did when I was young but only because I had no choice.
Bus lanes don't reduce total passenger capacity. They can reduce the number of cars but one bus can carry lots of people so reducing cars off the road. 50 people on a bus could be up to 50 less cars.
And if by 'environmental dogma' you mean caring for the environment then that's good isn't it?
And if by 'environmental dogma' you mean caring for the environment then that's good isn't it?
I like buses,I have my bus pass. I would like to see more buses owned by the nation for the nation.
There is one problem however.......Due to the fact people want the windows kept closed,they are mobile incubators for germs/virus,s.
I dont know what the answer is TBH
There is one problem however.......Due to the fact people want the windows kept closed,they are mobile incubators for germs/virus,s.
I dont know what the answer is TBH
Thus upping brolly sales.
tory party policy for decades has been to penalise bus users. Why the sudden u-turn? Anything to distract from police attacking women who hold a vigil after a police officer allegedly murdered another woman?
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You see, you can conflate 2 completely separate topics if you really try hard enough. Ridiculous.
How can it have been tory policy for decades, when they haven't been in continuous power for decades. I don't recall a bus user utopia under Labour either.
No, they are after votes.
"Margaret Thatcher once said anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure,”
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 April 2019
https://fullfact.org/news/margaret-thatcher-bus/
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 April 2019
https://fullfact.org/news/margaret-thatcher-bus/
Or drink?
Not Thatcher. But something that too many people believe.
The problem with buses in the UK is that they will never be cost effective. In a lot of tropical countries there are large numbers of mini buses that are popular and the drivers can earn a good living. In the UK buses outside of city centres are just not used enough to make a profit.
This is why it is inefficient and irrational to have bus services that are run by for-profit companies. Transport is an essential service, and needs to be run by not-for-profit enterprises, with subsidies where needed.
Notice the BBC will have a HYS on something like this and anything a gov says on services will always be subjective... but not a HYS on the sat night vigil, thought they liked the gov bashing, suspect they won’t like the answers.
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Tell Liverpool council who scrapped bus lanes and stopped buses going to the business part of town where thousands work . They say to encourage walking but in reality have widened pavements around pubs, clubs and restaurants to create a 'cafe culture'. Walk an extra mile to work in rain but for 6 months of year can drink outside.
Elderly and disabled effectively have reduced access to city centre
Elderly and disabled effectively have reduced access to city centre
The power of the booze, eaterie and leisure industries, versus not enough of the population caring enough to take up their right to take part in UK and local democracy.
I could use the out of town park and ride to get to the mainline station. BUT the service does not run in time for me to get a 7am train. When it does it goes around the town and takes 30 minutes to get me there when I could drive the distance directly in five. So I drive and park on the station car park. It's still park and ride I guess.
Whatever you do, don’t protest. The police will either kneel if you’re black or prone and cuff you if you’re white.
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"Margaret Thatcher once said anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure,”
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 April 2019
https://fullfact.org/news/margaret-thatcher-bus/
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 April 2019
https://fullfact.org/news/margaret-thatcher-bus/
I live 17 miles from my office which is in the centre of Leeds.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
Public transport is outside of a few big cities almost always an expensive, inconvenient and impractical alternative to private cars. Most medium and long distances journeys take twice as long from my home by train or bus than by car
Fortunately national level decisions are not based on individual anecdotes but rather for the majority
Not working from home?
I used to work 20 miles from home. Could cycle it in about 1 hour so but much longer than your road commute. Far cheaper and you feel much better for it
As always: these are plans that revolve around the experiences of the London elite.
You rightly point out that for peope trying to earn a living in the real world, cattle truck public transport is not an option - let alone desirable.
(For me ... car: 23 minutes. Multiple Buses + walking: 1hr 29min)
You rightly point out that for peope trying to earn a living in the real world, cattle truck public transport is not an option - let alone desirable.
(For me ... car: 23 minutes. Multiple Buses + walking: 1hr 29min)
Not to mention that it's just more comfortable and convenient to drive.
To be fair, Leeds seriously needs some kind of metro or tram system. Any city in France or Germany of a similar size has one.
The bus that stops outside my house doesn't start running until 9.30am. Not much use to workers commuting. And it takes nearly an hour to go 3 miles into the town center.
That is your own fault for living so far from work. I chose my first flat because it was within cycling distance. Cycled to work all my life never owned or driven a car. Retired early by not spending stupidly! While workmates bought further out fancier homes and lost a fortune commuting. Life is choices.
Move into Leeds or take a job closer to home. Doesn't pay enough for central Leeds? Get a better paid job.
I walk to mine - the roads are so bad it's quicker to walk the 3 miles than drive
It is just headline grabbing and when put into the context of how much money the Tories have given to their mates in CV19 contracts you can see £3 billion is peanuts and will hardly make a difference.
I don't even have the option of a bus, and that's 15 mins drive from Ringwood. Nearest bus stop that has any buses is probably about 2 miles away (cross country), and 3 by road. Services have just been getting cut back.
I'd probably only use them to go to the pubs in the local town (otherwise I'd drive), but a lot of the local population are v elderly and arguably need a bus service.
I'd probably only use them to go to the pubs in the local town (otherwise I'd drive), but a lot of the local population are v elderly and arguably need a bus service.
I should add that, in fairness to Leeds are spending millions on huge new Park and Ride hubs all around Leeds, and new cycle lanes everywhere, to reduce the number of people in cars coming into the city where in all honesty, you can't move.. Some other councils must be doing likewise. So they're doing the right thing, it just needs the public to get on board and utilise it for it to work.
Similar issue here - I live 6 miles from Bristol City Centre.
I can drive there in 20 minutes.
The bus (twice an hour) is a 30 min walk from my home, then a 45 minute ride (£4.50 one way last time I checked).
Park & Ride - 15 minutes to drive there, another 30 minutes on the bus and the added cost.
Thankfully my car is new enough to escape the incoming clean air charge.
I can drive there in 20 minutes.
The bus (twice an hour) is a 30 min walk from my home, then a 45 minute ride (£4.50 one way last time I checked).
Park & Ride - 15 minutes to drive there, another 30 minutes on the bus and the added cost.
Thankfully my car is new enough to escape the incoming clean air charge.
Agreed, even my sons bus to college takes 45 minutes when it is 20 minutes to drive, and that is without the 20 minute walk to / from the bus stop. Mind you a more frequent service that didn't mean him having to get to college up to 1.5 hours before his lessons start or hang about for 40 minutes to come home might make it more manageable.
Watch those driving times go up when the new bus lanes are put in place
My office is also in the centre of Leeds, 47 miles from home. By car (needed to do a few times) it's taken half the time of train - but why waste over 2hrs/day sat at the wheel when I can get exercise, time to do work and a less stressful journey? It's greener plus parking and fuel alone are close to train fare. Your 45min journey would be longer if it wasn't for others taking public transport.
All about you?
Take the train, stop contributing to the congestion, and save the planet
Take the train, stop contributing to the congestion, and save the planet
Yeah but you're a pleb like the rest of us and your time is of no value to your pet owners, ahem, leaders.....thats it yeah, leaders
Tories ruined bus travel now they want to keep private travel for the rich and powerful
Totally agree, the rich in their electric cars and everyone else by bus.
Absolutely now where can I park the Bentley
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "Buses are this country's favourite way of getting around.“
Errr... what? In what parallel universe does this man live in?!
Does he have a different definition of “favourite” to everyone else?
Errr... what? In what parallel universe does this man live in?!
Does he have a different definition of “favourite” to everyone else?
Maybe in London.
Has he ever been on a bus?
Is there a bus stop outside 10 Downing Street? No.
He certainly does have a different definition, he has his private pilots licence and flies everywhere, so no potholes or being stuck behind buses for him
Yeah! and the ONLY bus he’s ever been on in his life was the Fake £350 million NHS one
Like anyone believes anything Grant Shapps says. He doesn't believe what he says either.
Certainly not in rural areas & small towns where in many local authority areas they have been complicit in forcing out small locally based operators where school contracts supported local routes through the day
He meant favoured, not favourite.
Buses are essential for the lower paid who make up most of the economy, but nobody gets them by choice.
Buses are essential for the lower paid who make up most of the economy, but nobody gets them by choice.
What Chaps meant was many have no choice in the matter , but he is a TORY THERFORE AN ABSOLUTE LIAR !
Hate the things, a tube full of sneezing, ball-scratching mouth breathers... when you catch a bus that's not all you catch!
Even in a reasonable size city like milton keynes, not one of my regular journeys are even remotely viable by bus. (not that I'd want to be on one of those mobile petri dishes anyway) My journey to work by bus would take over an hour and 28 miles, releasing almost three times the pollution than the 12 minuets and 9 miles it takes on a motorcycle (the cleanest way possible)
It is just headline grabbing and when put into the context of how much money the Tories have given to their mates in CV19 contracts you can see £3 billion is peanuts and will hardly make a difference.
What busses? Does he mean the little empty one that goes through our village twice a day at inconvenient times in each direction not going to anywhere the locals want to go?
hes a metropolitan Thinks everyone lives the same
I havent travelled by bus since I was a teenager and nothing including wild horses will get me on them again
I havent travelled by bus since I was a teenager and nothing including wild horses will get me on them again
Yes he will be talking about London.
When thay talk about Britain, they mean London.
When thay talk about Britain, they mean London.
He's probably thinking back to the times when you could sit upstairs and have a fag. In the good old days when you didn't need a tenner to get on the bus and anyway you really had no choice other than walking.
He meant to say "Buses are this government's favourite way of getting around awkward questions about the failing transport infrastructure" but it just came out wrong.
Oh, it's this universe all right, he's just a bit over half a century behind.
Shapps like JOHNSON,PATEL, GOVE, AND THE REST OF THIS TORY JOKE IS A TOTAL LIAR !
That parallel universe is westminster.
At some point in the future, maybe we can sever their interdimensional portal
At some point in the future, maybe we can sever their interdimensional portal
Currently The subsidy in London is £7.70 per head of population. Here in Newcastle its 57p per head. When these two figures become equal that will be a fine examp of levelling up. But that will never happen as this government? Creates more hot air than anything tangible.
Whatever you do, don’t protest. The police will either kneel if you’re black or prone and cuff you if you’re white.
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Probably because the media didn’t want you to.
Did you see the women being flattened by the police at the lockdown protest? Thought not.
Still waiting for the billions promised for cycling and walking...
forget that. The money now has to be spent on "consultants" to organise surveys to decide which bus routes to improve if the gov ever finds the money for that. Our local station was to be re-opened according to our local tory. After the election turned out the council would have to stump up big style for consultants to advise on it first. I guess hse had consultants in mind.
You need consultants to define the terms of reference for the appointment of the selection committee that will appoint the consultants to produce the draft strategy and then decide which consultants will project manage the implementation. If there is any money left.
Busses where I live (rural) are one every 2 hours in the week. None on Sunday. They take over two hours to get to the main town ( only 20 miles away ). Last bus back is about 3:30pm. How do I know this ? - I used it once when my car was getting mot. Its impossible not to have a car out here - This is NOT London! Busses are only useful in cities, or as a last resort.
Which is the entire point of this exercise. Not to expect an hourly bus service in rural areas but rather have buses available as an alternative to cars for the majority of people who live in and around cities (55.91m in 2019)
Obviously suggested by a single Londoner with no children. Try getting two young children and all their stuff on a bus. And also where I live there are few buses, none on Sunday, and none go where you want to be.
I'm rural as well, the looks when you tell a tourist (in normal times) when they ask for the next bus and you say "April, if your lucky." is a picture. We just don't have buses on anything but routes through the main towns. Twice a day in summer if your lucky off main routes but even that has been sketchy the last few years
Because services are run by companies that are interested in profits, rather than as an essential public service.
Spot on, and if you can't get on the last bus because it's full, you're really stymied...........?
That's the biggest issue for villagers using buses - the times of those buses to the nearest town or city and the last bus back home. I've seen a few where the first bus on a Saturday is something like 10:15am, getting to destination (shopping, cultural, friends meeting up) at 11:25am and the last bus back leaving town at 2:40pm!! On a Saturday!! Evening events are out by bus!
this is a department of transport con, the bus services in the UK are appalling outside of the cities no bus company wants routes that are loss makers.
just look at history repeating itself EARNEST MARPLES the man who ruined the transport industry in the UK at the cost of the railway.
just look at history repeating itself EARNEST MARPLES the man who ruined the transport industry in the UK at the cost of the railway.
Absolutely. Bus services should not be owned and run locally by not-for-profit enterprises, with subsidies where necessary.
This government loves a massive promise doesn’t it?
I remember them saying;
- we’d lose 40% of our EU Exports
- 3 weeks to flatten the curve
- world beating track and trace
This government has lied more than any other during my lifetime - absolute whoppers that anyone with half a brain can see through
I remember them saying;
- we’d lose 40% of our EU Exports
- 3 weeks to flatten the curve
- world beating track and trace
This government has lied more than any other during my lifetime - absolute whoppers that anyone with half a brain can see through
Weirdly, a substantial proportion of the electorate simply does not care about the blatant lying. Thus supporting the attack on democracy.
As you clearly know better than all governments past and present, why not take up politics and do something about it then?
And we could have had corbyn god help us
How is this going to help outside London.
People don't use busses as they:
- Don't go where you need (London is the exception which has a massive network, sustained by lots of people)
- Take far more time
- Typically more polluting than cars due to the above.
If you don't work in the town centre and live in that town, then they are almost useless for commuting.
So bus lanes are unwanted
People don't use busses as they:
- Don't go where you need (London is the exception which has a massive network, sustained by lots of people)
- Take far more time
- Typically more polluting than cars due to the above.
If you don't work in the town centre and live in that town, then they are almost useless for commuting.
So bus lanes are unwanted
Working from home has to continue, but buses are needed not just for commuting.
So you're saying we shouldn't try to provide a decent bus service?
And London has turn-up-and-go, hop-on, hop-off, cheap bus journeys. £1.55 and you can change buses within an hour. That's why people use them more. You don't have one bus a day in each direction. It doesn't cost £3+ a journey. And other places don't have such a well defined and interconnected central business area as London.
Is this the same political party that removed subsidy from Transport for London & was on the verge of failing to support it in Covid as sour grapes of loosing London to Labour
No more bus lanes. Please.
All they do is make traffic worse, & in turn, pollution.
There is a bus that goes past my house, small suburban road. 1 an hour in each direction. 80% of them are empty. Yet they trundle past spewing out black fumes and making a racket. To get a bus to the top 5 places I drive to, all within 5 miles, would mean 3 changes of bus & 60-90mins vs 10 mins in car.
All they do is make traffic worse, & in turn, pollution.
There is a bus that goes past my house, small suburban road. 1 an hour in each direction. 80% of them are empty. Yet they trundle past spewing out black fumes and making a racket. To get a bus to the top 5 places I drive to, all within 5 miles, would mean 3 changes of bus & 60-90mins vs 10 mins in car.
Great in theory but I live in a town of 30,000 and more houses going up weekly. The bus service is pathetic and doesn't connect to major nearby towns, stops at 7pm and doesn't run at weekends. Serious investment and marketing would be required to get people to switch from their cars. It will also need to coordinate with train times etc to be effective.
Bus timetables, in the days when the Middle Way held sway, did usually coordinate with train timetables to the best of abilities.
The stopping at 7pm thing is the most insane part. It affects the night time economy in the destination towns, because people can't get home after their meal and pints. So they either don't go out, or they drive and don't drink (or drink drive). Obviously these community local pubs were turned into shops or houses years ago as well, so you have growing, dry, dormitory towns.
West Midlands Passenger Transport was co-ordinating bus & train services. BR had to bring in extra trains to cope with demand. Then Margaret Thatcher's government privatised bus services & you couldn't guarantee your ticket would work between weekends & weekdays.
That’s the problem with these huge housing developments. They are just dormitory towns and villages. Not just transport links are missing but much of the other info-structure is missing like shops, schools and doctors.
tory party policy for decades has been to penalise bus users. Why the sudden u-turn? Anything to distract from police attacking women who hold a vigil after a police officer allegedly murdered another woman?
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Multi-modal transport here we come! I am feeling the same whiplash on my neck as I am with global Britiain, the airport in the Thames, Garden Bridge, Bridge to Northern Ireland HS2 and HS3. The only thing that seems to happen at speed with Government is flogging off public assets and then spending even more subsiding private companies that have run down the service and robbed the pension fund.
Asset stripping the UK, sucking up taxpayers' contributins, before fleeing to safe havens?
Which public assets has this government sold off?
Similar to Corbyn's and the Green Party's ideas at the last General Election that the Tory's chums Daily Mail didn't print. Must be local elections coming up.
Bus lanes cause standing traffic and therefore increase pollution. Very bad move and a waste of money since MOST people will not change their car for the bus, not now, not ever.
Buses should not just be capable of zero emissions at the exhaust, as the legislation puts it. They should be totally electric or lpg, and use white noise not shrieking beeping noise pollution, to avoid accidents.
Maybe they could actually spend some money on repairing our roads that are more and more looking like they belong in some kind of third country/ war zone.
Literally feels like a driving on a cross country course with all the potholes that are either not repaired or just filled in badly by low skilled contractors who know they'll be back in 6 months to be paid to do the same job badly again.
Literally feels like a driving on a cross country course with all the potholes that are either not repaired or just filled in badly by low skilled contractors who know they'll be back in 6 months to be paid to do the same job badly again.
It might seem short-sighted, but just remember that petrol and diesel cars are being phased out slowly, so in 20 years time people will be walking/cycling/bussing more. Not everyone has the money or charging facilities for electric cars (which aren't any greener anyway)
Highly unlikely because it 20 years time electric cars will be mass produced and cheaper.
Electric & lpg vehicles are at least much less polluting, less noise, less air pollution. The extent of damage to health from noise and air pollution is becoming more apparent.
Just in time for all those millions of people forking from home who won’t need them.
forking?
You are quite right and under any other party it would all be happening a lot faster. Let's not forget it was Labour who started all of this, Labour councils who do more of it than anyone else and Labour who will soon be saying this is not enough and not fast enough. Which party was it that suspended Labour's annual road fuel tax rise? That would be the cons.
"so-called enhanced partnerships that will see local authorities agree to make improvements to infrastructure in return for better services from bus companies. "
Ah, the classic Party of the Rich money-recycling scheme.
Create a catchy headline with a random number in it and then get councils to deliver on it. With no extra cash whatsoever.
Ah, the classic Party of the Rich money-recycling scheme.
Create a catchy headline with a random number in it and then get councils to deliver on it. With no extra cash whatsoever.
Might work for cities but useless for rural communities. Where my sister-in-law lives she has 2 buses per day to local main town. .............. They will need an awful lot of new busses to make it "turn up and go".
Two buses per day in a rural area is a Good Thing, as very many rural areas had their bus services cut out completely years ago. And so many of the less busy railway routes were cut completely decades ago by Beeching, so as to develop the roads and car industries better. We need to restore transport communications between rural locations, & between them & towns, using non-polluting vehicles.
Bus lanes just reduce road capacity.
Cycle lanes have popped up on major 'A' roads in Bradford. I haven't seen a single cyclist on one yet. Commuters don't cycle in Bradford, it's just too hilly. These planners are driven by targets and environmental dogma, not common sense.
Cycle lanes have popped up on major 'A' roads in Bradford. I haven't seen a single cyclist on one yet. Commuters don't cycle in Bradford, it's just too hilly. These planners are driven by targets and environmental dogma, not common sense.
You believe that the only reason people cycle is to commute to work?
Cyclists working????
In my experience, cyclists dangerously use the pavements, not the cycle lanes next to the pavements. They even use the pavements when there are no motor vehicles around.
Or because it's grim up North. Every time I've had the pleasure of Bradford it's hammering it down.
Have you ever been to Bradford TC. There are so few cyclists because the standard of driving is appalling and it isn't safe to cycle, a cycle lane means nothing there, it's just another line to go across lol.
Can we have a "Boris Bus" with a funny face painted on the side?
RED! BORIS YELTSIN
We had one in 2016, the 350m a week NHS bus of LIES
MORE BULL **** LOCK DOWN BUS ROUTES HA HA HA! C.TAX UP AGAIN! BOZO WILL BE SELLING YOU SHININE BEEDS NEXT! GREAT LAUGH TO THE EL MONDO! BACK FROM THE FOOD BANK YET?
Busses where I live (rural) are one every 2 hours in the week. None on Sunday. They take over two hours to get to the main town ( only 20 miles away ). Last bus back is about 3:30pm. How do I know this ? - I used it once when my car was getting mot. Its impossible not to have a car out here - This is NOT London! Busses are only useful in cities, or as a last resort.
So buses every 20 minutes for 4 people to use?
Government: "We're pumping millions into some new blah blah blah scheme to make us look good..."
Us: "How about spending the money resurfacing our roads that are potholed the point of being dangerous and have areas that contain more repair patches than original road!"
Us: "How about spending the money resurfacing our roads that are potholed the point of being dangerous and have areas that contain more repair patches than original road!"
"Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "Buses are this country's favourite way of getting around."
I doubt he or many other politicians, certainly those outside of London, travel on buses very much!
I think buses are #cringe
I doubt he or many other politicians, certainly those outside of London, travel on buses very much!
I think buses are #cringe
Take a bus, a taxi or walk home in the dark....?
How Corbyn was ridiculed for his wish to improve public transport and provide bus services for rural locations.
This tory initiative will prove yet another vehicle for the transfer of tax payer's money into the hands of tory funders.
This tory initiative will prove yet another vehicle for the transfer of tax payer's money into the hands of tory funders.
You're living in cloud cuckoo land The reason there was no investment when in the Public Sector was that there's always another deserving cause to spend the money Classic was a programme about the Kent line where a secretary worked in London just after the war & was asked 40 years later what differences had she noticed in the time her reply none she was still travelling in the same carriages!!
I drive and park near the train station to commute into London. Bus is unreliable particularly in the afternoon/evening plus expensive. My bus journey distance is less than 3 miles but I prefer to pay a few pounds more for parking, this way I know I can get home quicker to my kids rather than waiting for busses that don't turn up.
I live 17 miles from my office which is in the centre of Leeds.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
I agree that in rural areas there is no alternative. Here the first bus in the morning leaves too late to get to a place of work and the last one back leaves too early.
Trouble is, time saved driving is often spent looking for somewhere affordable to park.............?
If I am going straight into the centre it isn't bad. I am lucky enough to be on a main route with a frequent service. If I want to go anywhere other then the centre or somewhere en-route it involve changes and takes ages. For those not on a main route into the city it can be very patchy or involve walking over a mile to one of the main routes.
Can we have a "Boris Bus" with a funny face painted on the side?
TfL used lockdown 1 to rush out a scheme removing bus lanes in favour of cycle lanes. Now we have two lane roads where the left is only for cyclists with very few using it, and the bus stop ejected from the curb into the right lane. When the bus stops all traffic stops, on a two lane road.
Liar, liar pants on fire! We have 2 unreliable services with limited timetables with 1 excluded for Sat / Sun. Also since moving here 25 years ago we have been trying to get train station re-opened which was closed during the Tory decimation of railway service aka BEECHINGS!
A proper joined up writing approach with universal bus tickets available on every bus co's. service. Hang on that is against the privatization competition idea of the 80's!
A bus every 5 to10 min would be good. Currently 4 a day where I am. Not a small town. Has reasonably full shopping streets. Has cinema and many restaurants.
Has business parks. Lots of offices too. However, pants buses!
A bus every 5 to10 min would be good. Currently 4 a day where I am. Not a small town. Has reasonably full shopping streets. Has cinema and many restaurants.
Has business parks. Lots of offices too. However, pants buses!
And a bus every 5 to 20 mins would run empty most of the time.
Everyone seems to want a Victorian system with engines rather than horses. That lifestyle has gone in afraid, outside the box thinking is needed, e.g. your own AI pod that slides on to a rail network and goes home without you?
Everyone seems to want a Victorian system with engines rather than horses. That lifestyle has gone in afraid, outside the box thinking is needed, e.g. your own AI pod that slides on to a rail network and goes home without you?
I live 17 miles from my office which is in the centre of Leeds.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
I can drive door to door in 20 minutes (45 in rush hour).
The train takes 1 hour door to door.
The bus (which stops outside my house) takes 1.5 hours.
Journey time is too long. I won't catch the bus no matter how frequent they are.
Unfortunately these decisions are not based on any data.... rather politicians make what they hope is a popular decision, to buy votes, and then ask for data to be selected that supports it.
Just look at the business case, or lack thereof, for HS2.... it fails to mention criteria that would make the project unviable... precisely because they'd already decided to do it regardless.
Just look at the business case, or lack thereof, for HS2.... it fails to mention criteria that would make the project unviable... precisely because they'd already decided to do it regardless.
tory party policy for decades has been to penalise bus users. Why the sudden u-turn? Anything to distract from police attacking women who hold a vigil after a police officer allegedly murdered another woman?
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Having destroyed public transport they now want to save it.
On the same day there are two reports, this item and increased defence spending. Where is the money coming from to fund these items together with the existing long list of spending promises from Boris ?
Bus W**nkers
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Where's the HYS on the covid vaccine issues?
AZ - 2 or 3 deaths and a few blood clots from batch made outside UK
Phzer - 23 deaths? in Norway, and 10 deaths? in Germany
AZ - 2 or 3 deaths and a few blood clots from batch made outside UK
Phzer - 23 deaths? in Norway, and 10 deaths? in Germany
The Department of Transport is promising services that are so frequent passengers will be able to "turn up and go".
This is obviously not going to be the case so why do they always massively over sell their promises.
This is obviously not going to be the case so why do they always massively over sell their promises.
That's because promises don't mean anything to the Johnson government. Promises and trust are hardly his strong points are they?
Your local council will need to raise your council tax by 5 percent to pay for the infrastructure changed required. If they don't do this then they get none of the new money, which itself is less than the Tory cuts to the bus services made in the last ten years.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
Never trust a Tory, when will you lot learn.
It's a tax hike to pay for Tory austerity failures.
I hope these are new bus and cycle lanes not pinching congested lanes off the current roads.
People don't use busses, because they are slower, unhygienic and don't tend to run door to door.
People don't use busses, because they are slower, unhygienic and don't tend to run door to door.
Another bold Boris promise.
Bus services outside the major cities are totally inadequate.
Rural communities have been completely abandoned.
Tory London-centric nonsense -again
Bus services outside the major cities are totally inadequate.
Rural communities have been completely abandoned.
Tory London-centric nonsense -again
Great in theory but I live in a town of 30,000 and more houses going up weekly. The bus service is pathetic and doesn't connect to major nearby towns, stops at 7pm and doesn't run at weekends. Serious investment and marketing would be required to get people to switch from their cars. It will also need to coordinate with train times etc to be effective.
Want busways, not bus lanes which cause congestion and pollution. E.g. might be easier to convert disused rail lines to a busway than a train service.
"Turn up and go" ! I can hardly wait.
Here in Northumberland we are poorly served by Arriva. They are only interested in running buses on routes that either have lots of passengers or are heavily subsidised by Northumberland County Council.
During the pandemic I have seen hundreds of buses serving Newcastle passing my home running empty during the day. Guess who is paying for these services.
Here in Northumberland we are poorly served by Arriva. They are only interested in running buses on routes that either have lots of passengers or are heavily subsidised by Northumberland County Council.
During the pandemic I have seen hundreds of buses serving Newcastle passing my home running empty during the day. Guess who is paying for these services.
Getting the flying pig back onto the launching pad again, I see.
Just fix the damn potholes. We're meant to drive on the left, not on what's left
Excellent work Boris another grate success for england ! Now were out of the failed so called eu supper state we can re built britain and be grate again !
Next time in English please... ironically...????????
You get paid per comment or per word?
Must be better than the usual paper round, eh?...
Must be better than the usual paper round, eh?...
KEEP TAKING THE PILLS PAL! THE EU LOVES YOU BABY! BYE BYE LITTLE ENGULANDER THE JOKE TOWN OF BORIS ISLAND 'OH' AND YOU WORK FOR US PAY YOUR LECKIE BILL!
Clearly this comment is either from a Year 3 pupil or someone who didn't get a lot of schooling but feels informed enough to lecture those of us who did on the benefits of the complex matter of leaving the world's largest trading bloc.
Can't tell if troll or legitimate post, hmm...
4,000 more green buses in the next 3 years. Won't happen. But no surprise that it's being announced. There is a climate conference this year and talk is cheap.
I have a car, not used much. My point is the green buses will not materialise, but they should.
What has the transport arrangements of Steadyonnow got to do with his doubts regarding the introduction of green buses?
? No, we assume the con is Lying. Look at their 'pm' for Pete's sake !
No because 4,000 more green buses in the next 3 years won't happen.
Do listen!
Do listen!
Busses where I live (rural) are one every 2 hours in the week. None on Sunday. They take over two hours to get to the main town ( only 20 miles away ). Last bus back is about 3:30pm. How do I know this ? - I used it once when my car was getting mot. Its impossible not to have a car out here - This is NOT London! Busses are only useful in cities, or as a last resort.
Could this be The Tories accepting their mad rush to privatize anything that moved was an error?
It was Labour that reprivstised SE rail after govt and local councils took over its running and turned it in to the best network, Blair's words were along the lines the improvement made by the public sector demonstrates why it needs to be privatised again.
Labour implemented the Beaching report too, not the Tories. The left are fundamentally dodgy and rubbish.
Labour implemented the Beaching report too, not the Tories. The left are fundamentally dodgy and rubbish.
Busses where I live (rural) are one every 2 hours in the week. None on Sunday. They take over two hours to get to the main town ( only 20 miles away ). Last bus back is about 3:30pm. How do I know this ? - I used it once when my car was getting mot. Its impossible not to have a car out here - This is NOT London! Busses are only useful in cities, or as a last resort.
I'm rural as well, the looks when you tell a tourist (in normal times) when they ask for the next bus and you say "April, if your lucky." is a picture. We just don't have buses on anything but routes through the main towns. Twice a day in summer if your lucky off main routes but even that has been sketchy the last few years
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "Buses are this country's favourite way of getting around.“
Errr... what? In what parallel universe does this man live in?!
Does he have a different definition of “favourite” to everyone else?
Errr... what? In what parallel universe does this man live in?!
Does he have a different definition of “favourite” to everyone else?
Indeed - holding up London as an example for anything transport related will lead to a dodgy conclusion - just because a policy would work in a part of the country that has had billions thrown at it over the years to meet the self-fulfilling prophecy that "it's the place to do business" does not mean that it will work that way in many other places in the country.
Not even in london. No one gets the bus if there's a tube alternative as the bus can take up to 4x the time to go the same distance depending on traffic. Speaking from personal experience when bus was the only option during tube suspensions.
Why don't all the greens just come out with the honest answer to their transport policy.
They want to ban us from having our own vehicles.
Once they get rid of petrol and deasil cars they will go after electric ones
No one will except not having the right to own their own means of transport.
They want to ban us from having our own vehicles.
Once they get rid of petrol and deasil cars they will go after electric ones
No one will except not having the right to own their own means of transport.
Most public transport systems in the UK are just fundamentally out of date and based on Victorian ideas of family life.
A family can't do the weekly shopping on a bus or train, people now travel 10s to 100s of miles a day for work or WFH digitally.
More super fast trains between cities and local DLR type systems are needed for work and leisure and acceptance that the car is needed for shopping.
A family can't do the weekly shopping on a bus or train, people now travel 10s to 100s of miles a day for work or WFH digitally.
More super fast trains between cities and local DLR type systems are needed for work and leisure and acceptance that the car is needed for shopping.
Regular electric bus services on popular routes in high population areas seems like a good idea and will probably reduce car use and improve air quality. It won’t work well or do much for rural areas where air quality isn’t an issue and the long routes and low population density will prevent it being cost effective.
This would be a perfect opportunity to introduce green buses (something that BoJo has lamentably failed to do in London when he ordered Diesel-guzzling monsters for the capital where electric was available).
But hey, that would require vision and strategy - qualities not normally associated with Party of the Rich.
But hey, that would require vision and strategy - qualities not normally associated with Party of the Rich.
Uh-oh
the left leaning moaners will hate the idea of improved public services
NEVER RUDDY SATISFIED
the left leaning moaners will hate the idea of improved public services
NEVER RUDDY SATISFIED
Lost your crayons?
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So anyone who thinks that Bozo and co are clowns must be left wing. Remember folks you don't have to be left wing to disgusted with these clowns just sane.
It might seem short-sighted, but just remember that petrol and diesel cars are being phased out slowly, so in 20 years time people will be walking/cycling/bussing more. Not everyone has the money or charging facilities for electric cars (which aren't any greener anyway)