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Affordable trains please; I'd be financially better off working a minimum wage job that's walking distance from home than travelling 30 mins in any direction on a main line train route for a median wage job.
How can we convince people to commute by train instead of road without reducing rail prices?

⬇️ This right here is a significant chunk of both my politics and environmentalism.

Give the people trains!

Bad news averted!
We need more sleeping services, not fewer.
We're very glad Stockholm - Hamburg/Berlin has been saved.

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Old photo and manifesto of Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP, who stood on a platform of "No Landlordism".

I'm really glad that the Green Party have caught up with the Labour Party on their excellent "No Landlordism" platform...of 1902. #gpconf

Pete, Matthew and I standing in the conference hall holding a sign which says "Train not planes. I'm voting for E01"

🥳 Thank you to everyone who co-proposed and voted for it and commented on drafts.

🛤 It takes a village to write a good motion.

3️⃣ This is the third conference I've brought it too.

♻️ Our HS2 motion in 2024 was E01 on the agenda; East West Rail was E01 this year so we recycled this sign!

🥳 I'm so so delighted that my motion for completely building East West Rail and fully electrifying it passed overwhelmingly at conference.

🙏 Huge huge thanks to @greenchloem.bsky.social , Ed Fraser and @benwheels.bsky.social for speaking in favour.

#TrainsNotPlanes #RailNotRoad
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Selfie of Pete, Emma, Katie, Matt and Sam at the Transport Policy Workshop

We're at #GPConf !
Here bright and early for the Transport Policy Workshop.
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Let's call a spade a spade.

A "flying electric taxi" is essentially a private jet.

The last thing we need more of - electric or not.

Flying is hugely energy intensive.

Let's get East West Rail built and trains running asap instead.
#TrainsNotPlanes

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

You know what I like about trains?

Everything.

They take you nice places, and don’t mess up the world getting you there.

#Lugano #Switzerland #railsky

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Northern Powerhouse Rail plans to be unveiled 'in weeks' - amid concerns over delays Plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) will be unveiled in the coming weeks, Government sources have said - amid concerns over delays to the…

Our transport spokesperson @greenmattbfd.bsky.social :

"Bradford and our district need NPR to deliver the economic boost we have been promised for years.

"Every delay sends a message that our communities are being treated as an afterthought compared with London and the South East."

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Absolutely ridiculous that Caerleon doesn’t have a railway stop. It’s 100% needed and ridiculous that one wasn’t given under the New South Wales Metro scheme.

One of the most important Tourist destinations in Cymru. It is also located in a commuter area. I hope sense prevails.

Get in loser we’re going to become the third largest party in England (and Wales)

Zack Polanski has fixed the Green Party's biggest problem. See how Zack Polanski’s first weeks have dramatically shifted the Green Party’s centre of gravity.

Zack Polanski’s first weeks have shifted the Green Party’s centre of gravity. Polanski has rebranded the Green Party....to the centre of left-wing organising, and now the best-placed vehicle to face Reform UK."

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Zack, Rachel and Mothin at a table together with a sheet of paper

Green Party leadership team ready for another great week!

With @rachelmillward.bsky.social & @mothinali.bsky.social

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Gatwick given green light for £2.2bn second runway plan Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year

For heaven’s sake @teamlabouruk.bsky.social use scientific facts & science as @zackpolanski.bsky.social does. “The govt is planning to set out its *belief* that the expansion will be possible without breaching the UK’s carbon budget”? ❌
This is cloud cuckoo land.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

Yet another climate-wrecking decision from a Government intent on the pursuit of growth at all costs - but the only things that will grow as a result of this disastrous decision are pollution, noise, and climate chaos

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Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

Absurd. How little does this Government care about the climate?

Squeezing out 100k more flights a year won’t improve people’s daily lives. Investing in a growing green economy to lower bills, create high-paid jobs and cut deadly air pollution will! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well said!
#TrainsNotPlanes

This is abhorrent environmental vandalism from Labour.

There is no justification for expanding airports in a climate emergency.

Labour should get on with building new railway lines - including HS2 in full - instead.

#TrainsNotPlanes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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@greens4hs2.bsky.social is my affiliation.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social was my correct answer in the pub quiz last night.

Labour are too timid in their approach to rail nationalisation - they're leaving the most lucrative bits so the banks that own them can carry on creaming off profit.
We say nationalise it ALL, including the fat-cat Rolling Stock Companies!
We support this campaign.

Douglas McAllister MP holds a placard that reads: I back ending the rolling stock rip off. Let's use the cash to cut passenger fares.

Train leasing companies, also known as rolling stock companies, are hugely profitable - making over £400m in 2023. 💸

Great to have @douglasmcallistermp join us in calling for an end to the rolling stock rip-off.

We need YOUR MP to join the fight for a fairer railway. Email them today 👇

This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk.

We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London.

Labour - you're next.

Last week, Policy Exchange released yet another report opposing high speed rail projects authored by Andrew Gilligan and - tellingly - foreworded by Reform's Richard Tice.

Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.