Jul 11 2007

Public transport is not very green

Published by John Redwood at 2:04 pm under Blog

I went to an interesting off the record lunch with senior reps from the bus and train business.

During the discussion they agreed that Uk trains are far too heavy, requiring large amounts

One Response to “Public transport is not very green”

  1. Simon_Con 12 Jul 2007 at 9:08 am

    However, one must investigate the carbon footprint of actually creating the new vehicles ?

    How long would a new low carbon bus have to operate to make up the carbon cost of replacing the old bus ?

    This seems to be a factor that is frequently missing from all sorts of areas from cars to micro-generation.

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