Okay, maybe need quite a few % raise on the fuel duty, TFL claim they raise ~5bn from fares.
Lothian buses has a more manageable £153m revenue (2017 annual report), presumably most of that coming from the fare box.
CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 14years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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Okay, maybe need quite a few % raise on the fuel duty, TFL claim they raise ~5bn from fares.
Lothian buses has a more manageable £153m revenue (2017 annual report), presumably most of that coming from the fare box.
Reading the fine print, this is just an initial sum of money for preparations to introduce free travel if possible. Let’s wait and see if it actually happens.
Needs an RFID-enabled ID card for under 19s.
£15m more for cycling is on top of the previous £5m increase, which took me a while to find out. £100m in total= £20 a head before councils' matching/ top up. Although not all will go on infrastructure, (they need to advertise the current death trap painted lanes).
A bit disappointed they didn't get them to double it to £160m. But being over 18 and with no kids, I guess I would be.
Sheriffhall apparently now paused for a "review" too.
"The government has also agreed to review plans to upgrade the Sheriffhall roundabout on the Edinburgh bypass, although ministers have rejected calls from the Greens to scrap works on the A9 and A96."
Sherrifhall could be great news if the money goes to ECC
A9 still utter <rule 2>
@Frenchy
Dinnae be ower modest loon. At wis you eens at did at.
Wonder how long I will have to use up the two books of child City Singles I bought before the price increase?
@wingpig - Melanie Main saying on Twitter that you're likely to have till early 2021.
Reports I've seen indicate new free bus scheme coming in January 2021. So city singles and child day tickets until then...
Creating a hedge fund of Child Singles. I’ve heard it all now!
I bought four books of child city singles plus two books of child day tickets before the price increase. Eldest is currently bussing to school five days per week, plus goes into town certain evenings for activities (hence day tickets). I can't see the single tickets lasting beyond the end of March, but the day tickets might just last a teensy bit longer. Hopefully by then the weather will have improved and then can start cycling to school some of the time...
Mr Day said: “It has never been more important to take decisive action to tackle climate change - and Scotland is leading the way by committing to reduce the number of kilometres travelled by car by 20 per cent by 2030.“Workplace parking licensing has the potential to be a key tool for local authorities to help us reach this ambitious goal, by encouraging the use of more sustainable travel modes, reducing congestion and tackling harmful emissions.
“As the net revenue generated must be committed to support policies in local transport strategies, this policy is also intended to finance improvements in public or active transport, making it more attractive and thus encouraging individuals to leave their cars at home.”
@Stickman - and by "decisive action" the Minister means passing the buck to local authorities. As far as I am aware, only two authorities (Edinburgh and Glasgow) have expressed an interest in even considering the introduction of the Workplace Parking Levy. That leaves 30 local authorities who are either actively opposed or indifferent.
This isn't how you react to a climate emergency. Imagine coming home to find your house ablaze and deciding the best thing to do was to "authorise" your neighbours to throw buckets of water at it.
Imagine coming home to find water seeping through your ceiling and ruining your floor, and deciding the best thing to do is set up some buckets to measure how quickly it's dripping, commission an architect to calculate if your ceiling is likely to collapse in the next few years, then spend a couple of years talking with your entire family to devise a target for how much you dare turn off the water at the mains, and a few more years trying to get the agreement of everyone else in the stair to turn off their water too.
Meanwhile the architect has some friends from university who are now Professors, and who say everyone in the stair really ought to turn off the water right now, but no-one does because they can't have a bath or shower, and anyway the stopcock is behind a panel that looks lovely but the kitchen fitter who did upstairs tiled over it and didn't leave an access panel, and the owners really don't want to have to take their kitchen to bits.
A while back the electrical plant in my girlfriend's stair suffered a big fault. Big enough for an alarming quantity of blue sparks, a tremendous buzzing and all the lights in the building flickering. My girlfriend shut off her power and told her neighbours to do the same. A surprising number of them reacted exactly as @Arellcat describes: "But then I won't be able to watch the telly/make tea/..."
Once SSEN had been and fixed the fault, they sent in their loss adjusters. Total damage in my girlfriend's flat: 1 transformer for some low-voltage lights. Damage in flats with the power left on (owners out or intransigent) included entire boilers, fridges, freezers, washing machines, some elaborate culinary devices and a whole pile of extremely expensive Apple hardware.
We're doomed...
We're doomed...
I think you've just made a convincing case for putting your girlfriend in charge of the world.
From link
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The full terms of reference for the review will be published in due course. The review is expected to consider how the devolved government can shift spending towards better maintaining existing roads rather than building new ones
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