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RichardHebditch

  1. No air conditioning in our office but means I can hear the blackbird singing just outside our window. #simplepleasures
  2. @powellds Congratulations!
  3. Norman Baker: My message to councils is to do something different & where the ideas work, I’ll help make them happen bit.ly/JPl9Hu
  4. Looking through the RAC Report on Motoring 2012, struck by how unattractive are images of driving now. Maybe another factor in peak car idea
  5. @nmcinroy Agreed. Most LAs too small to be effective on transport & too big to be responsive to local communities.
  6. Govt's devolution agenda with LEPs could mean even more fragmentation for transport, eg W Midlands bit.ly/JXxx9h.
  7. Stagecoach & Orange trialling mobile phone ticketing on buses in Cambridge tgr.ph/KwJyjk But need simple product not just technology
  8. Private finance for roads could be bad deal for taxpayers: bit.ly/LtANGU
  9. @melissaabache It's significant sums for things that wouldn't normally get funded so will have impact. But impact less due to wider cuts
  10. Campaign for Better Transport (slightly grumpily) welcomes the funding for sustainable transport today: bit.ly/KjXNr1
  11. Govt's new rds policy keen on route based strategies. This explains why they can ignore what's really important: bit.ly/KFM3Oo
  12. DfT's also announced latest LSTF sustainable transport projects, which is good news: bit.ly/JL06Wt. @livingstreets should be happy
  13. & today is 4th anniversary of me marrying the lovely & super clever @mubeenbhutta. Ill daughter kind of getting in way of proper celebration
  14. Childcare day today so missing out on the delights of responding to gov's plans to hand over millions to private sector to run main roads.