Sunday, 26 September 2021

NO MONEY FOR FFPT BUT A BOTTOMLESS PIT FOR HS2's LITTLE SISTER

IRRATIONAL, ILLOGICAL; A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE!

"Free buses in West Midlands would cost 'massive amount of money'" is the headline.

Replacing and duplicating buses and trains with Metro "bus on rails" trams costs many more times the "massive amounts of money", in fact.  Yet, strangely, this is what you are doing and it is never a problem.  Money is never an obstacle to clogging up our roads with railway tracks, large tram stops and long, train-like "bus on rails" trams that each cost £4 m each compared with an electric bus directly on roads, minus the railway lines, costing £350,000.

It is truly weird and wonderful priorities and thinking.  Totally illogical and unreasonable thinking.  Actually irrational and not very intelligent.

In addition, it is urgent that we use more stick to force, "Oh!  You mustn't upset the precious motorists", to leave their cars at home and use even more carrot than stick to bribe them, to actually pay them even, to use public transport.  That makes it even more essential, as part of the package of measures, to entice them to use regional FFPT.

It is urgent, we reward them with FFPT when we are using the stick of congestion charging to hit the poor, beleaguered, impoverished, long-suffering, now even fuel-starved, motorist.

Resource depletion and eventual climate catastrophe also compel sensible action, at long last.  Something else in rather scarce supply!

SEE:-  https://freepublictransport.info/

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