10:10:20 living - my vision to improve our prospects!

My voluntary pledge for a brighter future!

25 COPs have not made a scrap of difference.  In fact, all the travelling for so many has meant more greenhouse gas emissions that we are meant to be urgently cutting.

I am living out my pledge to cut my diesel car mileage by 50% on my 2019 mileage; and, to keep to 60 to 65 mph cruising on motorways for 95% of the 70 mph sections.  That achieves over 70 mpg.  Car use only for trips where the 100% fossil fuel-free pushbike would take more than an hour to cycle!

We use 3 units of electricity per day averaged out over the year.  Gas use is not so good but no more than 20 C in cold weather for the main room we live in.  All the other rooms are lower.  £40/mth for total gas and electricity.

Zero food waste, with composting for guerrilla gardening.  Minimum shopping, maximum cycle use for all local journeys and bike turned into a cargo bike.

Absolute max of 10 units of elecy per day

Min 10 miles per litre if you drive

Max 20 C in room you sit in.

WHO WILL JOIN ME?!

Cost of full FFPT is easily covered by LR mass rapid transit construction for converting some buses to trams

Hi Bob and David - and copied to four key players who are the decision-makers (to save time in writing to them individually.  But, it is as much for Trevor, Andy, Deborah and Ian as it is for Bob and David.  Even more important for those four than you two!).

£58.5 m/yr x 20 years to 2040 = £1,170 million for the existing concessionaires (freeloaders!) like us.

But £15 billion for tram extensions to replace mainly buses is £15,000 million

(one billion is a £1,000 million)

Therefore, £15,000 m divided by £1,170 m = 12.8

Therefore, the existing, partial FFPT is as little as 1/13 the cost of replacing only part of the existing mass rapid transit system of bus and train with the tram based (or light rail) mass rapid transit system.  This would very comfortably cover the cost of Regional (W Mids) FFPT for everyone - fully implemented.

It simply needs the political will to transfer the £15 billion (or £750 m/year) from capital to revenue to pay for a full, free public transport for all regional users.  This cuts greenhouse gases by a massive amount and is the most cost-effective way to avoid the charge of hypocrisy from declaring a climate emergency in 2019 and resolutely remaining on the Road, not to zero carbon, but to 'Nothing Ever Changes' - except worsening climates around the world.

Best wishes