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‘Sustrans to cut 21 jobs because of Scottish Government funding hiatus’
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Posted 11 months ago #
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oh that's grim. that explains something that I heard recently about someone looking for a job :(
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Have no inside info, but as I’ve have said before - SG/TS was looking at ‘best way’ to get money to LAs.
Review expected to be finished last year but still not done.
Unclear from this article whether SG thinks ‘soft’/community stuff is a bad idea/too hard to quantify/Sustrans not best org to deliver.
Good that there is still a commitment to infrastructure. I’m sure SG/TS find it more convenient to have Sustrans in the middle rather than directing LAs to do stuff. May or may not produce best/most consistent outcomes.
The whole process of competing for funds NOT efficient.
SG plan for ‘bikes for all children’ not well devised. I think TS advised against doing it the way it was done.
Without Sustrans many good things would never have happened.
It’s clear that parts of ‘its network’ are not great - partly because they don’t actually own most of it and partly ‘because resources’.
Being largely dependent on Gov money (especially in Scotland) means it may not be able to what it wants/is good at.
But Sustrans is far from alone in being in such a situation.
Generally SG has not been very good/consistent on ‘transport’ for decades. Being willing to ‘spend more money on Active Travel’ remains largely a fig leaf.
On the face of it engineering a cash flow crisis ahead of a policy change is bad governance or just more ineptitude.
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