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A few notes before I start this post, and hope it doesn’t turn into a rant.

  1. I’m really sorry that I’m turning into a transport geek/bore.
  2. I think the LTPs are a good thing.
  3. I know one of our council transport people a little and she’s brilliant, hard working, and very good at what she does.
  4. Swindon actually seems to be doing pretty well against it’s LTP2 targets.  This is worthy of praise.
  5. I KNOW this is a complex issue and I’ll never understand it fully.  What I’d like to see though, it some real, forward thinking leadership from the people in charge.
  6. I’ve not read ALL the information about LTP2 and LTP3, so I may have missed some vital stuff, for which I partly apologise, and for which I partly blame the inadequate management summaries! ;-)

I make no apologies for this post being long.  It exists for two reasons:

  1. To make me read and understand some of the LTP documents and record my thoughts.
  2. To record my thoughts on the LTP3 consultation.

OK, here we go then.

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A general election is looming in the not too distant future.  I was highly disappointed with the commitments made and the messages sent out at the party conferences this summer, so, if any politicians are reading, here’s what you need to do to win my vote:

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10:10

The Guardian and the makers of the film ‘Age of Stupid’ have created a new climate change campaign called 10:10 (see http://www.1010uk.org).

The idea is that you sign up and try to cut your carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010. Lots of famous people and big businesses have signed up, but, despite being a keen-though -ow-key climate change campaigner, I’ve not yet made that pledge.

Why not?

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