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Embracing green technology is one thing but making something as inflexible as this work in practice will take an Act of Parliament!!
There is now a growing feeling amongst Joe Public that this Carbon Reduction idea is just a revenue raising scheme for hard press Treasury's to profit from. I like to think that a common sense approach of using what have more sensibly and cutting out wasted energy will reduce our local tax charges in the long run. Things like having a tram system which can collect cart loads of waste or recycling in sidings for a big pickup and despatch to a huge central plant instead of small lorries running all over with multiple handling & long distance tipping journeys reduced. Where there are no trams then a system of multi-user wagons can be adopted on either Network Rail systems or private lines, even London Docklands could feature in the waste/recycling program.
Light railway lines need to be creeping out into more urban areas if we are to make the most of integrating this kind of operation for the sake of our childrens future! The bloody climate will just do as it pleases anyway, with or without our help.
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