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The “E&T” article on decarbonisation is identical in message to what informed writers & sources have been saying for some time. Unfortunately, I think we can guarantee that DfT will continue with the current version of “Bionic Duckweed” ( Which is now – Hydrogen vapourware ) rather than actually do anything useful.
Depressing.
Meanwhile, it’s good to see the Highways England deliberate vandalism campaign being given more unwelcome-to-them publicity in the “mainstream” press. There has been much anger in specialist journals & a particular worry concerning the Queensbury Tunnels between Halifax & Keighley.
I thought that the “Surge Pricing” of Uber/Lyft was & is part of their deliberate strategy,
The object of the whole exercise was to extinguish all the competition & then gouge the public, surely?
Sometimes referred to as the “Wal-Mart model” of monopoly extortion.
I could read The Times story about bridges at this link without logging in:
https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times/20210703/281621013320513