Sadly, where bike lanes similar to this were installed in London. Vans and cars treat it as parking spaces and no one bothers to enforce the rules. Even seen police park in bike lanes, just ridiculous!
Been thinking that about a lot of things these days. Buildings, cars, even clothes and furniture etc. All those years studied to become architects and designers and they don't use more than the same 3 colours!!
And they have the cheek to complain when someone does a bit of graffiti?!
Let down by being only a single door bus in a city! 2 doors is much better for accessibility and comfort of passengers.
I think it should change in the way you say. If this country is serious about not just devolution but decentralisation then local to regional projects need to be decided and funded at that level. Otherwise its micro-management by people with no clue of the importance of such projects to local people
He oversaw a famine in India and did nothing about it. He should never have been on our money in the first place, even if did help us win the war. That was 80 years ago, time we moved on as a nation.
Of course someone on the right wants the weird old money system we used to have. I wonder if even he knows how many pence made up a shilling made up a pound.
Sorry but no one in Westminster should get a say in projects like this. Should be up to local mayors/ combined authorities backed up with a proper regional government that has borrowing powers.
DFT should only get a say on genuinely national projects.
Why they won't just give the councils the means to build and own properties themselves is beyond me. Council housing is the only solution and even saves money in the long run as the need for housing benefit would go down with genuinely affordable rents.
Quite affordable fares on LNWR too.
But really this shows why HS2 is needed in full, so a lot more LNWR type services can run.
Never knew it had first class before.
I prefer a combination of LNWR and Northern/ Transport for Wales if going from London up north. I actually dread the thought of using Avanti Manchester services. Only Crosscountry around Birmingham is worse.
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I think going to Ireland and seeing my same Leap Card work across both Dublin and Cork areas on the train really opened my eyes with what is possible with smartcards. Same with iLink seamlessly working on everything in the north.
2 things.
1. They need to make the regular fares, especially singles match the prices charge on their smartcard. We shouldn't need a separate smartcard for each region.
2. They may as well join up with the South Wales scheme, they are literally next to each other but separate which is daft.
I wouldn't call that a plan at all. He clearly has no idea what he is doing. Needs removing from office.
I don't think they even know why they are there or what they are doing. Seems to be no plan.
Long overdue, means for the first time all London airports accept contactless at their rail stations.
Ideally every country would be as self-reliant as possible. Just makes sense, whether with energy, food or manufacturing our own stuff.
It still really annoys me that the Tory-Lib Dem coalition cut the nuclear power programme, it would've been very useful in the past 5 years as they would've been online by now.
This is why we need a government looking at the long term for energy and shifting off of fossil fuels as much as possible, so we aren't held to ransom by these mad events.
They never learn. It's the chopping, changing and all the uncertainty that makes these projects so expensive in the first place. No long term plan or vision. They may as well have stuck a middle finger up at Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield in this case.
Fares have still been pushed up on Greater Anglia and other national rail operators despite what the government says. At least for us stations still in the oyster zones.
Said about this to some Labour supporters on here, they have nothing to say! London and surrounding areas singled out again.
It really annoys me as I travelled around the Midlands the past week and found posters praising the fare freeze everywhere. Then found out Merseyrail, Scotrail and TFW all froze fares. Came home to zone 7/8 (just outside London) and fares have gone up, really not fair. Cost of living is worst here!
I remember shortages in petrol stations in late 2021, walking around it was like a Sunday after the shops were shut. The roads had less than half the drivers on them, it was lovely! Plenty of journeys by car can be easily done by other means, people just need to stop defaulting to driving.
The other problem is it's really bad for inflation, especially food prices which are already too high. Far too much is transported by fossil fuels, we urgently need to break our dependency on it. Wouldn't be surprised as it is, that this leads to a recession.
We need to move away from cars and trucks and towards public transport and rail frieght as much as possible. Car and fossil fuel dependency really makes us vulnerable and beholden to some despicable powers!
Yes and the policies they did are just relevant today as they were in the 40s. Council housing and public ownership will always be relevant.
We can always learn from history. Society has changed, the solutions have not.
Needs to nationalise the energy companies though, so we can formally plan for a time without fossil fuels.
So why can't it insource that expertise? So in the future, it can train people up in these roles directly by itself.
Why can't we just have a bold Attlee style government, who fundamentally changed the way society was run? Not just endless tinkering around the edges.
We should be starting to feel the difference by now is the point.
And I'm concerned because I'm not convinced this government can last long. Looks like it's on thin ice from what I can see from now till May. Like the Tories at the end, it's endless speculation over how long it can last. It's crap.
