Johnny_Gogo wrote:I'm thinking that Renfrew is in whatever shire and Yoker is in Glasgow, so who is actually subsidising a £1.70 fare against 3 quid cost for every passenger journey?
I would be in favour of paying increased fares - but the fact is SPT have been feeding untruths in that they do not include passengers Travelling on the ferry using Zonecards, in the total figure, hence it looks likes the ferries are underused, in my book that's fraud.
Secondly SPT have spent in the region of £3m of public money in the last 2 years in hiring consultants and commissioning reports into schemes such as cross rail - cross rail raises it's head frequently with another new report or commission, Why don't they just go to the city archives and get the report out that was commissioned in the 1970's by the predecessors of SPT the then GGPTE.
SPT also waste money on senior management fact finding jaunts to places such as Helsinki to discover how to run a bus station, funny that I thought they had one of their own at Buchanan Street, it's been there for at least 30 years, other recent trips were to London and Turin, to look at the design aesthetics of metro /tube stations including enhancing the consumer experience through the installation of public artworks in stations. This is on top of the shiny silver bollards installed at underground stations, to prevent a 4x4 being driven down the escalator's or stairs.
Give it a few days and cross-rail will be back on the agenda, the subway will be extended and will operate as a maglev between Glasgow and Edinburgh, (but there is no trains after 6pm on a Sunday) there will be a new tourist mono-rail around George Square, but only after a new report has been commissioned and consultants re-hired, It will be on page 4 of the Evening times probably by Tuesday, along with a nice wee picture of Mr Photo Op, High Heid Yin, Cooncilor Purcell.
Goodnight
YB.