Saturday, 27 June 2020

Sustainable development or ruinous growth?

What do you think?  Only if you're interested.


  1. The more we spend the more greenhouse gases are emitted.  Is that more or less right?  (Proviso: We are now getting more green electrons as renewables take off.)
  2. If you would never have voted for HS2, why are you sympathetic with the second most expensive transport mode to build after HS2?  That is, swish, smart, irresistible trams?  £15 billion to 2040 that will include underground trams, says WMCA.  To fuel and feed economic growth but what else?
  3. Should we only go for transport projects that are the best value for money in construction terms and entice the most motorists out of their cars for commuting to work?
  4. If old blokes like me can have totally free public transport after 9.30 am, why not you youngsters?
  5. Should regional bus and tram be free for all in compensation of the greater risk of Covid-19 transmission?
  6. Why not train, too?  Me and my ilk get it free, after all (very bad grammar, there!)
  7. Should the UN definition of sustainable development - "to further forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs" - be all in important in the minds of us all and, even more so for our decision-makers?
  8. What's the failed phone got to do with it?!

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