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With human climate breakdown now being more apparent with extreme weather, Covid and extinction warnings from David Attenborough, should this now be the time to divert funds from glitz and glam extravagance like HS2 and "bus on rails" tram extensions to replace buses to, instead, Fare-Free Public Transport that I and many others have enjoyed for very many years in the West Midlands region and throughout England when it came to buses?

pennygower1@gmail.com, labelling the email PbP.  Edinburgh on 11 Feb Zoom.

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Brilliant, Patrick that you are a climate striker!  I was the guy who wrote and sent in the question that you read out.

WORK ON TRANSPORT TO REDUCE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

Are these ideas any good, Patrick?

ACTION - my suggestions to reduce climate catastrophe in transport:

To get low climate impact from transport - stop destroying railway lines.  For urban railways, can their commuter trains be returned; can they no longer be built on; or, can they be used for cycle-walkways?

Stop converting railway lines and bus routes into tramways for "bus on rails" trams.

Use electric buses going directly on roads, without the railway tracks.

Use the money saved from abandoning tram extensions into Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) for all and not just old people like me that I have enjoyed for 13 years!

Move from multi-modal transport that is multi-mixed up transport into sticking with making buses more sought after.  That means FFPT and electric buses on bus priority roads.

FFPT is essential to compensate for slightly higher risk from Covid and to cut congestion.

Essential to cut greenhouse gases, congestion and polluted air in cities.

Reward for leaving the car at home.

Upgrade 22 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway so it can be used by everyone who goes human powered and not fossil fuel powered, including horse riders.

Scrap HS2 extensions.

6 areas this aft.  Jobs to reduce climate catastrophe in transport was the first!