As of today I am the proud owner of a Deutschland ticket. It costs €49 (about £44) for one month and lets me travel on ALL public and regional transport throughout Germany. Imagine that in the UK!
“This union between Scotland and England, which has lasted over 300 years, is greater than any passing politician”
Discussing the vote of confidence, Scottish Conservatives’
@realStephenkerr
says the union is greater than a “mere calculation” and all about “kith and kin”.
#bbcdn
In Berlin I take my deposit bottles back to the shop and get my 8 cents back on each one. The system here has been in operation for decades. It really isn’t rocket science.
There seems to be a regressive alliance forming in Edinburgh. At least I now know who to put at the very bottom of the ballot paper together with the Tories.
As of today Berliners wanting to buy a cargo bike can get a grant of up to one thousand euros from the city as the council believes bikes are an enviromentally friendly alternative to the car.
Berliner, die ein
#Lastenrad
kaufen möchten, können sich dafür ab heute bis zu 1.000 Euro Zuschuss von der Stadt holen. Aus Sicht der Verkehrsverwaltung sind die Räder eine umweltfreundliche Alternative zum Auto.
This sort of comment worries me, Alex. I’m English-born and raised and passionately pro-Indy but I don’t equate all pro-Union extremists with all pro-Union voters and think you doing the opposite diminishes you.
This is the same civic, inclusive
#indyref
movement which repeatedly castigates my English origins, flips out about flags on strawberry boxes and smashes up tea cakes with a hammer, yes?
'Tax on worship' in the same way as me paying for a bus to Tynecastle is 'tax on football fans' or paying for a train ticket to Yorkshire is 'tax on sons visiting their parents'. Why does parking have to be free for motorists but everyone else has to pay?
This is precisely what Scotland needs to do, and now. To do anything else is to divert transport spending away from where it is actually needed and lock us further into a dysfunctional, high-carbon future.
“The mayor of Paris is determined to turn her city from a car park to a place worth living in.” No reason why
#Edinburgh
and other Scottish cities couldn’t do the same.
Thousands of people lined the Royal Mile today as King Charles III was presented with the Honours of Scotland at a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral.
This was followed by an
@rafredarrows
fly past ✈️
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Edinburgh - Newcastle - Amsterdam - Berlin. No plane, no stress. Train, ferry, train. Lunchtime day one until teatime day two. Prices from £180 depending on time of travel. Nice.
Today I used my £44 a month Deutschland ticket on a ferry across the Elbe and a tram through the forest. Tomorrow it’ll take me on two regional trains back to Berlin. If it can be done in Germany, it can be done anywhere.
Where in UK or Scottish transport legislation does it stipulate that ‘traffic flow’ must take precedence above all else? Asking for some elected representatives and officers.
Reflecting on my visit to Scotland this weekend. We often hear rational arguments for the merits of union based on our shared prosperity and security. While correct, they miss the most important thing. It is family.
A shared culture, history and endeavour. It’s in our poems, in…
Time moves on, some people do not. No doubt the man made a significant contribution to Green politics in Scotland, but his conservative, establishment attitudes clearly don’t reflect those of the party at large.
Yes, there's a huge 'you just had one job' vibe about this, but as ever the problem is trying to squeeze too many jobs into the same limited space. Too much of that space is still being given over to cars and parking.
Customer numbers have more than 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 since opening to Newhaven last year!
🚊9.3m customer journeys were recorded in 2023, compared to 4.8m in 2022.
🚊August was our busiest month when 1.2m trips were recorded.
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"Life is intensely better with fewer cars around. We have the proof now that when the surroundings are safer, people will cycle. The challenge now is to not slip backwards ..."
Precisely what
#Edinburgh
needs. You’re not going to get anywhere near meeting the city’s transport and climate challenges without a proper tram network
Increased car dependency, traffic levels and emissions all in one project. How can we start to address climate chaos, when some people refuse to accept even the basics of planning and transport.
There must be a better phrase than “elevated to” the House of Lords. “slithered into”? “dumped into”? “corrupted into”? Has to be something more fitting
The city’s bus service would operate much more effectively if entitled (SUV) drivers didn’t park in bus stops and there was even the remotest possibility they might get booked.
Road just over the Dean Bridge in Edinburgh has been closed for 18 months, now leaving residents only 1 car exit/entrance. Environment is much better + forecast problems never came. Elsewhere in town ‘concerned residents’ bravely campaign against similar measures.
A plan for a Glasgow-wide network of active travel infrastructure has been unveiled. 🚶 🚴🦽
The plan will add 270 km of cycle ways & improved footways to the existing network. Most parts of city will become reachable by bike in 30 minutes.
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Paris, 9th arrondissement. These miniature gardens used to be car parking spaces until a few years ago. The city reclaimed them, and replanted them with fruit trees and flowering shrubs 🌱