With the full caveat that I have never managed a govt dept, as Wes Streeting knows very well having been health secretary, investment in active travel *pays for itself many times over* in better public health outcomes etc. Cutting investment is often a false economy, as the UK knows to its cost.
Peter Walker
Streets immediately surrounding a student ‘debating’ society in Oxford will be closed next Wednesday afternoon and evening. Buses will be diverted from Queen St after 4 pm with additional closures in Cornmarket, Market St, Ship St, and St Michael's St. A significant police presence is also expected.
Back in 1994 Camden did an exercise to calculate the true cost of a residents’ parking permit. It was about £500. That’s about £1250 in today’s money. Any permit charge less than that shows that car owners are being subsidised by the tax payers.
We were delighted to host 209 students and teachers at our schools open day last week. To kick off the visit, the groups learnt about what happens at Diamond before heading on a tour of the synchrotron to see the technology up close.
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Oxford Clarion
This seems incredibly weak.
"The new cycling and walking investment strategy ... also includes a target for at least 55% of shorter urban trips to include some active travel, also by 2035"
So what, most short urban trips by car for the next decade?!
Time for a public digital payment system.
Paging Andy Burnham / UK Labour
This review of Fahrenheit 451 written in 1954 slaps.
Nick Lester-Davis
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Diamond Light Source
Imagine I told you there was a single intervention that could reduce annual sick days by 4.4 million, free up 1.
