Date published: 2007/08/27
The BBC says:
Public transport has too many weak links making it difficult to switch from one mode to another, a report by an environmental group suggests.
Travellers polled for a Transport 2000 survey said buses did not connect with train times and stations had insecure cycle parking and poorly-lit footpaths.
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Tara Melton, from the group, said: "Rail passengers need real travel choices. All stations should have good bus links, decent footpaths and secure cycle parking and must be accessible to all."
If the nation did not squander countless sums of money on useless organisations like Transport 2000 (who should really be called Transport 1950) then we would have plenty of money for decent transport. Of course Transport 2000 hates cars, so the one link they fail to mention is driving to the train station. But Transport 2000 doesn't believe we should have an integrated transport system, they believe we should have a transport system which works the way they, the academic middle class, think it should work. They don't believe in choice, they believe in forcing people to travel the way they think people should travel. And did they bother to ask any of the travellers whether they were willing to pay for all these wonderful things Transport 2000 wants (e.g. bus links in the middle of nowhere), or should it all be funded by someone else (of course). Funnily enough, car drivers are the only transport users who pay their own way.
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