• Rail Reform Bill: Too little too late (Rail Engineer)
• Rail demand to exceed capacity under any scenario, says Steer (Rail Business UK)
• TfL announces half-price travel for vulnerable young adults leaving care services (Ian Visits)
• Transport in Île-de-France: a new year retrospective (Fabric of Paris)
• Kolkata Line 3 extension trial runs begin (Metro Rail Guy)
• The Death & Privatization of Japanese National Railways: Part 2 (SYLee )
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Quite amazing to read in the small print, that in France, the cost for first registration of a car may now exceed the value of the car. The previous cap at 50% of the value of the car would seem huge, in any case, to us in the UK. Here the maximum charge is less than £2,000 – in France it could be £50,000.
Two articles, put together, spell disaster:
The Steer report is entirely correct & our current government also wants rail freight to expand by 50%+ … though where the money for the necessary engineering is going to come from, because that’s the one thing they are definitely not providing or explainiing…
Then there is the DRAFT “Rail Reform Bill … meaning they will dump this hot potato onto the next governement – what a surprise.
Lastly, an article in the “Grauniad” in the past week gives us some interesting & depressing numbers …
These were concerning the spend on transport moved over from the “savings” accrued by scrapping HS2.
The government/Prime Minster gave the following numbers:
October 2023: £36bn
November 2023: £8bn
and February 2024: £4.7 bn
Which drives one to the inescapable conclusion that someone, or several of them are lying & simply don’t care that we have noticed
Ford Mustang uk First licence rate based on CO2 emissions and fuel type £2605.00
France Eco Tax The Ford Mustang price 58,400 euros emits 256 g/km of CO2, the ecological penalty of 60,000 euros.
Toyota GR86 price 33,900 euros emits 199 g/km of CO2, taxed an additional 60,000 euros.
UK First licence rate based on CO2 emissions and fuel type £1565.00