I'm in the SouthWest UK in SouthWest Wales . 🌱 .
public transport / green infrastructure / lo-tech . 🌱 .
What to expect from the upcoming Senedd / Welsh parliament reforms
The Welsh Parliament is going through a raft of changes ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections. Here’s all you need to know:Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024On the 24th of Ju
The Welsh Parliament is going through a raft of changes ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections.
Definitely in this case, yes.
Why we can't have nice cities
Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’
Gutted that this article did not contain the electrifying utterance by Sunak that driving at 20mph is against British standards. Plenty of other guff, though.
The number I saw tallied with the current timetables. I was out for around 3.5 hours, walking along two long roads which share all available buses. For about 1.5 hours of that time I was inside a building. Thinking back to before the current cuts came into play, I would have seen another 4 or 5 buses going in either direction.
Easier to just walk
😮💨 Today, to keep things simple, I didn't even bother trying to catch a bus. I saw two the whole time I was out, going the other way. It's like a skeleton service since a month ago. I can't see how it's going to keep going. 🛣️
The map was good too.
Quite shocking decline, reading through that paper; although the figures are the same it seems it's taken a while to sink into my head. Yes, Dr Morgan's produced loads of interesting papers. I'm quite tired now :D
That's great. I'll take a look at all links except for the map, which might crash my flaky laptop. TY
There's a lot of manipulation, yes.
FoE + Leeds Uni Evidence Huge Bus Cuts (Eng/Wales, since 2008)
Research of timetables reveals ‘silent war’ on bus users outside London
"The data found urban areas outside the UK capital had an average of 14 buses an hour, whereas in London the hourly average was 120." - by 'urban areas', what size? Would have to look at their paper itself, but I can't find it so far.
Where I'm living, even 10 years ago we had about 8 buses within 5 mins walk from home, and now there are 3. And they aren't spread out evenly timewise, which would probably be impossible to attain along their entire routes. But it results in a poorer service overall.
Mike Childs, head of science, policy and research at Friends of the Earth, said: “To reduce pollution and cut emissions, we need the government to invest in our crumbling public transport system to make it far easier for people to use their car less and switch to greener ways to travel, like buses, trains and cycling.” Well we know that, but...
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Local Bus-Service Cuts
It's two weeks since our local bus-services were shredded. Routes were discontinued and frequency reduced. We thought that would consolidate the remaining services regarding reliability.