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I just received this:
"Hey everyone,
Unfortunately the announcement was just made - the people of Greater Manchester, in their wisdom, have voted against the Transport Innovation Fund proposals. This means no new buses, no extra trams or new routes, no additional carriages on trains, no integrated ticketing system and yes, no limited, peak time, weekday, one way only charge to tackle the shocking congestion on our roads and clean up our filthy air.
It is probably obvious to most on this group how this happened - millions upon millions of pounds pumped into scaremongering and outright lies from the faceless, self-interested billionaire owners of the Trafford Centre who bank rolled the no campaign clouded the issue and meant a lot of people thought this was all about a congestion charge and knew nothing about the investment, or didn't understand the correlation between the charge and the improvements - so many people I spoke to in the final days said 'I haven't voted because I take the bus'...
Anyway, we can argue all day about what could possibly have led to such a devastating loss for the future of our region, but I don't think that is particularly helpful. "
SO let's continue to build our beautiful bike community in MCR....