Hello Paul
Thanks for this excellent newsletter and for all your hard work.
ROUGH RULE OF THUMB:
£1 in price = 1 lb in weight of GHG
I am still insisting that green jobs do NOT come from extensions to High Scam 2, Metro trams or, Sprint buses simply because these are luxury, wealth-flaunting, highly extravagant and thus high GHG emitting projects.
They mean destroying yet more urban railway lines for light rail (LR) or very light rail (VLR) trams to go on them. We end up with heavy rail (HR), LR and VLR to make for more changes between the different modes and a slower public transport journey.
They are a distraction from concentrating on the urgent need to free up road space and to save GHG by extending Fare-Free Public Transport to you youngsters and to bring in road pricing for car commuters.
The money could be used for strictly enforced bus lanes on every nearside lane with traffic light priority: green for approaching buses and red for cars in the outside lane, to discourage car commuting and to free up road space.
All the high falutin, flash projects mean there is less money for the more basic, urgent projects to update our buildings to solar power and to high energy efficiency standards.
Am I right, Paul or have I got things hopelessly wrong?
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