The fall of the Tory party

I do agree, but for someone who run a buisness and needs transport, there really is only so much that can be passed on to the clients but its a bust situation and really only works mostly where the public transport is as good as it is in london. Very few places out side of it have good PT.

Absolutely...part of the solution is to invest very heavily in public transport across the whole country. No more of this bullshit two buses a week thing for a village.

There's a village in Switzerland in the middle of nowhere on a high plateau overlooking the Mattertal that (according to local legend) has a local bank that has the highest average bank balance in the whole of Europe for it's account holders. The reason for this is that this village has a decently sized factory that produces hacksaw blades, staffed by villagers but also by a workforce who travel up the valley on the Postbus which runs every 10 to 30 minutes from early morning to late at night.

Whether the fact about bank balances is true is neither here nor there. Its a village that has been on that alp for 1,000 years but has built itself a successful industry that employs lots of people in the near region. This would not be possible without reliable public transport.

It works the other way too, lots of people who live in remote alpine villages need to get to school/college/work....their public bus system is the key to this.

The UK needs to be all over this.