Tag: bus services
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On active travel
Who could object to ‘active travel’? Who could possibly deny its health, environmental and economic benefits? Who could be in favour of being unfit or overweight, or encouraging unsafe roads, traffic jams, potholes and pollution? So, if it’s so obvious a virtue, why is active travel – walking and cycling as the natural mode of…
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How to destroy a bus service
Cars and other private vehicles worsen global heating, endanger our bodies and health, poison our air and wreck our neighbourhoods. Yet, instead of trying to encourage us to make less use of them, governments in the UK are busy doing the very opposite. The UK government, cynically and absurdly, even declares that it’s fighting a…
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A black hole in green transport?
An anecdote is a dangerous base for an argument, I know, but today that’s not going to stop me from a grouse about public transport. Yesterday I needed to get from Mumbles to Cardiff Bay. These days I try to keep the car in the drive, unless there’s no reasonable alternative, and I didn’t think…