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Also: free bus fares are no use if you live where there's minimal/0 service.
e.g. a free bus pass in Edinburgh's worth something like 3 times the value of a pass in Inverness.
BT's already done this on some landlines, which have to operate via t'internet. Now:
1. Your hub has to stay on.
2. you have to include the 0131 code to call a local number.
They call this a 'service upgrade' 🤦
Anyone got a list of local hustings for Holyrood '26 ?
We know of @spurtle.bsky.social on 16 April?
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
NB apart from any subject-specific ones. (we won't turn up to e.g. a farming one and pepper them with bus questions. That would be bad form and we're being nice)
TBF you can take your card (if you have one), then catch the next bus to see if your vote resulted in an improved service.
Also remember; a Scottish concessionary bus pass has been an approved form of ID in previous elections (and, hopefully, in future too)
'Council meetings are getting longer'.
In inverse proportion to the value produced?
Watch as we carefully dissect the parties' offerings re buses before May 7.
(it may not be pretty, but we don't do abuse, generalised or specific)
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Er...we didn't mention cycling at all in our reply to @spokes.org.uk OP
Table 7, page 22 https://www.cpt-uk.org/media/bnqecqfw/speed-report-scotland-final.pdf
6% reduction in demand for every 10% reduction in speed in London...some other data puts the reduction in demand higher: “a 10% decrease in speeds reduces patronage by at least 10%” edinburghbususers.group/begg-edinbur...
'Bus laybys could also be removed as part of the works'
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Responses requested 'from people who live in or regularly travel within or through Midlothian for work, study or leisure...particularly people who travel by bus'
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Certainly not.
The passengers don't seem at all impressed either.
Just 32 days till April 1.
Snap!
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Wait, let's get this right.
So you can write a piece about an architect's fantasy as if it MIGHT be viable; get it published in a national newspaper AND get paid for it?
We're in the wrong business 🤦
@nigelbagshaw.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com
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True. But the UK's current 'fix' of going full pelt for discontinuous electric + batteries is a bit concerning.
Ought to just do a Proper Job, at least on main routes.
Hmmm...never thought hydrogen was a serious 'alternative fuel' contender for most public transport anyway.
Fortunately @lothianbuses.bsky.social seems to have focussed on 'lectric.
(Also applies to trains. Battery weight is still a problem though.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NEW on our website:
edinburghbususers.group/closed-bus-s...
Help us get a handle on how many bus stops have been removed or closed (permanently or temporarily) for more than a month.
Tell us about them on our short survey form!
Case in point: @lothianbuses.bsky.social quietly (as is their wont) observing that we'll need bigger bus stops eventually.
But there's some bus lanes.🙂
And, as if by magic, much less congestion 😜
@sw20.info @spokes.org.uk
And not a bus lane in sight.
Next step; bus route/ bus lane overlay😜
I built “Cycle-Scope” - a weekly-updated active-travel roadworks map using Scottish road works data. It features, Quick filters with (cycle hangers, shared paths, signals/crossings) + extra map layers. Have a look: city-scope.co.uk/cycle-scope
than the 38, which doesn't.
Not aware of research disaggregating the effect of each factor in congestion: traffic levels, roadworks, non-enforcement (& CEC removing bus priorities!)
The message re the 43 & 38 is the 43, which benefits from priority measures, lost less time over the years than
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Are you thinking of this?
www.cpt-uk.org/media/bnqecq...
