Some will be aware that the Independent newspaper is currently pushing
its Green Manifesto, a more radical alternative to the possibly
promised Climate Change Bill. They've invited readers to contribute
suggestions for inclusion in Saturday's edition, so I've just
despatched the following to them.
If others send in their threeha'pence today, we might get something
included about waterways in the final thing.
All the best
Bruce
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 27 October 2006 15:23:54 BST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Transport in the Green Manifesto
>
> Dear Sir
>
> I most heartily applaud your initiative in publishing the Green
> Manifesto. It seems to me that transport must be one of the
> cornerstones of the effort to avert the catastrophe which faces us,
> and you have rightly campaigned for a rational approach to the
> management of air travel.
>
> Land bound transport is of equal importance, and it is essential that
> this country adopts the integrated transport structure that was
> promised us by New Labour, but which it has manifestly failed to
> deliver. Since the Second World War, the road transport lobby has
> dominated the Ministry and then Department of Transport, whilst our
> European colleagues ensure that rail and water play their part to the
> full. For example, in the UK, construction of the track is paid for
> out of general taxation for roads, yet rail and water must seek
> development funds from the private sector.
>
> In the case of the waterways, British Waterways' achievements in
> encouraging the use of canals and rivers to move appropriate cargoes
> such as waste or heavy construction material has been rewarded by
> DEFRA with swingeing cuts in their grant-in-aid for this and the next
> three years.
>
> Let us have a level playing field across all modes of transport, and a
> policy that, through integration, minimises the environmental damage
> caused and emissions released.
>
> Yours faithfully
>
>
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Bruce Napier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.nbsanity.net
07884 003581
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