Car-free days are shelved (From York Press)

Perhaps a car-free year would be more long term.

Well, forcing our local bus companies to run services that are somewhere close to decent and cheap would be a start, as would reinstating some of the long-closed railway stations around the city and local villages.

Ha! Ha! Ha!
A silly idea, anyway!

Prefer a care-free day to be honest.

Best one was when they closed Bishy Rd for the evening (did it this year in July) Getting the council behind any initiative like 'car free day' is the kiss of death anyway - much better if local residents businesses and shopkeepers organise it.

Getting the council behind any initiative ??

no. don,t do it ?? it only encourages em.
often wondered, if NOBODY voted, for any of em ,what would happen??????

oldgoat wrote:
Well, forcing our local bus companies to run services that are somewhere close to decent and cheap would be a start, as would reinstating some of the long-closed railway stations around the city and local villages.

ideally yes. (or some sort of narrowguage railway using half of the foss islands / derwent valley route right to the city centre would tap in to Osbaldwick and Tang Hall markets for travel)

Huntington train station is long gone and the trackbed built over, so that'll never come back; Haxby station seems to be a carrot held out on a stick thet never gets any closer; if a train route to Beverley got built, it'd likely diverge from the scarborough line just after the Towthorpe Road crossing, and so there could potentially be a station for Old Earswick and south Strensall; the Brecks Lane end of Strensall may get a station sometime maybe never dunno; If the old ECML trackbed a Bishopthorpe hadn't been built on, a tramtrain could have been used from there to the city station, but won't happen now; Copmanthorpe won't get a station due to which lines it would have to be served by (if looking southbound from a railway bridge, the two rightmost lines are the ones that copmanthorpe station would have to be built for, which would require an island platform right in the middle of the east coast main line, so ain't gonna happen).

Ideally York would become part of the west yorkshire PTE 'Metro', as they're trying hard to push up sandards of bus travel (and coincidentally at the same time, Firstgroup is dropping routes across west yorkshire).


Btw, if nobody voted in council elections, we'd have the same setup as our current government.... and I don't think anybody would want that!!