From Bournemouth, Brighton and Manchester... to Copenhaqen and Brussels

摘要

First, a broken promise i am afraid. I have not yet made it to Swansea for my promised inspection of 'ftr metro' so, dear readers, you will have to wait until the January issue for that while enjoying your next Inside Track with BC.rnNow, I confess you would be unlikely to head for the Belgian capital via the cities mentioned in my headline, but something else ought to be following this somewhat convoluted route. That is an emerging viewpoint from the allegedly United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the important subject of combating climate change and the contribution that public transport must make in tackling realistic reductions in mankind's carbon footprint.rnIn Bournemouth, Brighton and Manchester, the three main political parties will have completed their annual conferences by the time you read this. The LibDems in Bournemouth, the now not so 'New" Labour Party in Brighton and the Conservatives in Manchester.