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The argument is that, whilst many adults are happier sharing roads with other traffic with speeds of over 20mph they are less keen to do so when they are supervising children. Therefore by seeing it at a speed where there's few people who would be limited to cycle it should make cycle update...

AI isn't likely to be as big an issue in this country as many fear. For starters we have a rapidly aging population (there's now more over 80 year olds than under 18's), which is likely to lead to a shortage of people in the workforce for a given population size (whilst the workforce may not...

I didn't say that the growth wasn't significant, rather that the overall numbers (when compared to who else isn't working) isn't that large. Anyway, as others have pointed out; the fact that services have been cut may well be a sufficient factor to that growth, as will the fact that there's...

I suspect that a lot of people (and I include myself in this) have elements which are associated with Autistic behaviour - however a lot function in society, and if it's not causing them issues why do they need to have a label? Sometimes some people need to learn to pipe down a little when it's...

One thing which is often forgotten is that OOC is likely to see over 25,000 homes built, that's likely to be a population of around 65,000 extra people (similar to Loughborough in size, but not a lot smaller than Crewe 75,000 - however given the existing population it's likely that it would have...

No one is denying that (although I suspect that at least some who think that probably could). However given there's 16 car trips for every bus trip, there's certainly some capacity for increasing that. Buses don't even factor all that favourably against walking (1:9 in favour of walking...

If it is 1/6th of the HS2 flow, that may not be that far adrift from what might be needed, given it's likely to be servicing a secondary destination. It's also worth noting that crush loading for a sub 10 minute trip is much more acceptable than 90% of seats being occupied for an 45+ minute...

Thing is any new housing proposal put forward now would be at least 5 years to go through the planning process (longer if it's not in the local plan yet). A site locally to us was in planning before we had children, our eldest was near the end of junior school when we moved into one of the last...

The issue comes, with road transport, is where some roads have seen a 25% increase in use in the last 20 years, so there's then a significant cost in upgrading them to add extra capacity. For example the billions to build the Stonehenge tunnel (which some have suggested would have been better...

Obviously it won't be sold to the American people in such terms, rather the ongoing promise of a smaller government (with the associated implying lower taxes). Likewise there'll be talk of more free market (i.e. moving towards 100% capitalism), when the reality is that the best systems of...

Looking at realtime trains it's about 5 minutes of travel time each way, given the frequency of service would be similar the only other significant saving could be walk distance between services. As such about 15 minutes sounds about right. However as Plymouth to OOC would be more likely to...

Whilst I don't disagree that there certainly should be more spending in the Southwest, it's not quite a bleak as you highlight. For example the long distance services are fairly new trains (and a lot of stations are served by them, especially within Cornwall). As long as the paintwork is in...

Fair enough, however can you be sure that the time savings would result in more people travelling, or does that result in the overall numbers reducing. For example you'd need an extra 3% traveling from Plymouth to cover for a 10% reduction in the number of passengers at Totnes. However that's...

The lengthening is the journey by adding in a key interchange point is unlikely to change how people travel. Likewise shortening the journey time by a few minutes by building the Dawlish Avoiding Line (one of the options put forwards to mitigate against issues at Dawlish, chiefly being a new...

Connectivity (domestic) would only get you so far. Bottom line, the population of the South West is much to spread out and low. It has about half the population density of the South East and about 1/10th that of London. You've just highlighted 3 airports in the South West, two of which are...

Hypothetically, if it allowed a headline Plymouth to London service of (say) 2:58, should we skip Exeter and Totnes? I suspect that the answer is we shouldn't, because of the interchange that those stations allow. Now, just because OOC is a new station and we don't necessarily can see how it...

As I understand it there's quite a reasonable flow which results in doubling back at Paddington for Heathrow, which is something which OOC would help with.

There's been a LOT of fuss about Anglia Rayner about the possibility of owning £1,500 in Capital Gains Tax, however to put it in perspective even at the maximum owed of £3,500 all 650 MP's could be voted in as Labour MP's and they all could own £3,500 in taxes and that's then repeated for the...

School bus travel can rack up some fairly big bills fairly quickly, the cheapest way to do it can pay the parents 45p/mile. At that rate with about 190 school days (and the minimum distance being 6 miles a day) that's about £500 per child*. While that's a long way short of £100,000, if the...

Given how busy Central London is, going around the edge could be a better option. Whilst it would be longer, traveling at speed would mean that the journey time may not be much slower. I had been thinking the East Coast hub could be somewhere well connected like Seven Sisters (more so in a...