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« on: June 22, 2024, 18:06:24 »
The Transport Action Network compares the major party manifestos at:

http://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/comparing-party-manifestos-on-transport/
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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2024, 07:07:27 »
Quote from: grahame on June 22, 2024, 18:06:24
The Transport Action Network compares the major party manifestos at:

http://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/comparing-party-manifestos-on-transport/

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One area where they differ from Labour is that they are promising to keep the £2 bus fare cap in England for the next five years, funded through rail reform.

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Overall, there is much to welcome, but quite a few concerns about the detail that is missing on public transport investment, what it will do on road building and how it will replace fuel duty.
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2024, 10:34:53 »
Oh great! The phrase "robbing Peter to pay Paul" springs to mind if they're somehow going to fund the £2 bus cap that way. The bus cap was a good short-term measure, but does little to help people who need to use more than one bus for a journey, or families, or those who don't know how buses work, and nothing to expand services geographically or better operating hours/frequency. It needs something rather more inventive to help improve bus travel long-term and encourage more people to use buses particularly outside major urban areas.
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2024, 18:09:15 »
I picked up on this today regarding Labour's announcement that they are going to abolish Network Rail.  The article includes Christian Wolmar's concern about the need to fully understand the scale of such actions.  Here's the article.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2135497-labour-plans-to-abolish-network-rail
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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2024, 21:39:10 »
Quote from: johnneyw on July 01, 2024, 18:09:15
I picked up on this today regarding Labour's announcement that they are going to abolish Network Rail.  The article includes Christian Wolmar's concern about the need to fully understand the scale of such actions.  Here's the article.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2135497-labour-plans-to-abolish-network-rail

I though much the same when I saw that headline in the Sunday Times. But on reflection, once the industry has been restructured into GBR▸ (Great British Railways), NR» (Network Rail - home page) will not exist in any recognisable form. So won't it then have been abolished?
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