So, train passengers are to fork out for ticket price rises on the east coast line equal to 15 per cent above inflation, effectively doubling our subsidy for railway running costs, the Guardian reports.
A fine way to get us all travelling by means that reduce environmental harm.
The government is increasingly leaning on us to ‘do our bit’ to cut greenhouse gas emissions but its strategy is odd – slash state funding for the railways but spend it instead on adverts encouraging drivers to save fuel. Should we all stay at home?
Mairi Dupar, climate change analyst at the RSPB, said: “The government is actively undermining its own goals for combatting climage change. How can we make green choices when those choices are priced out of reach?
“If ministers are serious about tackling climate change they must make it possible for us to help.”
Click here for the RSPB's views on climate change.
And here for the Guardian report