Part 2 of the manifesto series.
Our Highland location means that transport is an issue vital to many of us.
Whether it be questions of the time it takes to deliver goods to the Central Belt, the danger of many of our local roads, the lack of cycle paths or the frequency of buses in rural areas, transport issues affect in many different ways.
There have been suggestions that people travelling on short haul in the UK should be taxed higher to dissuade them from damaging the environment. Do you think this is impractical in the Highlands or is it a price worth paying to protect the environment?
Does the establishment of suburb communities encourage people to use cars when they could walk?
Is it practical to expect the A9 to be dualled beyond, say, Dornoch? Is there anything else we could be doing to the A9 and A96 to make them safer in the meantime without driving motorists mad?
Given the terrain, is cycling ever a realistic option outwith the towns?
Let me know what you think are the issues and what you think should be done about them.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A local manifesto: Our modern transport system
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2 comments:
Does the national consrvative party realise that there is life north of Manchester.
Taxing air travel will harm those of us who live in the north of Scotland. Plane takes 1 1/2 hours from Inverness to London. Train takes nearly 12 hours and is generaly much more expensive. The proof of the pudding is, as always, in the eating. The passenger growth from Inverness airport shows a dramatic increase.
Please think of the people in the north when creating draft policies.
Bob, I tend to agree with you on this one and it would be a tough policy to sell to people outside of metropolitan areas. I think that 'one size fits all' policy approaches always stand to run the risk of being inappropriate to certain areas and the Gummer/Goldsmith proposals fall into this category to my mind in regard to North England and Scotland.
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