Wednesday 23 June 2021

Response to Jonathon Porritt's blog

Thanks very much for this helpful overview, Jonathon.

You talk about "legacy fossil fuels" where I write about finite fossil fuels.  What do you mean by 'legacy' and why that preference?

You speak in glowing terms of what Biden is doing in the US but what is your verdict on the UK?  We have very big spending on HS2, HS2's little sister in the West Midlands called Metro "bus on rails" trams and, Sprint?  All costing billions of pounds in deadly greenhouse gas emissions.
 
Sprint gives a 1st class bus service while still having to run a 2nd class bus service for those bus stops that the Sprint does not stop at.  Why not make both a unified 1st class bus service?
 
What is the point of HS2, Metro and Sprint?  Why not simply end the discrimination against the young and middle-aged and give them what my age group has had for nearly all of this century - regional Fare-Free Public Transport?

Pointless HS2, Metro and Sprint in unnecessarily using finite resources, adding to the heating greenhouse and continuing with nature turned into concrete, brick and tarmac.  Just stick with trains and buses only, to make for fewer changes between different modes and a faster public transport journey.

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