To my great surprise a driver has been ticketed for blocking the dropped kerb by the pedestrian entrance to Macc Hospital. She was there on her phone. A nurse.

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But equally, reopening a railway that merely plugs into an already overloaded station in a city centre isn't creating a better rail network. E.g. people who keep screaming "just reopen Woodhead" singularly fail to answer what you do about the lack of capacity at Piccadilly and Castlefield.

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Building new roads & making roads safer are two different things. As is retrofitting roads to cater for active travel and/or prioritised public transport. The A1 upgrade from Birtley to Gateshead is a good example of what shouldn't be done imo. The 3 miles cost more than the reopening of a railway

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Govt needs to decouple electricity bills from the wholesale gas price. The UK also needs to generate more if it's own energy mainly from renewables rather than rely on expensive fossil fuel that is dependent on volatile world markets. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

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📢 Oxford Greenways launch 📢 We launched the Greenways project today! Masterplan of connecting safe cycle routes. It was just great to be standing on a stage with City, County, and Uni ALL behind the project, and Councillors from 3 different parties speaking in support. Also I got a mug! 😍☕ (1/4)

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