Chatting to a nurse at the hospital when I visited told me she gets into work half-an-hour early to secure a parking place.

I wonder how the economics of 'free' parking plays out in such circumstances. It seems availability matters more than cost.

Even with PR it will be possible, essential indeed, for the leading party (across the council) to be elected with less than 50%, requiring working in coalition. The Greens should be working as much on working in coalition as on election.

That assumes the objective is undertake even limited change to improve safety. But if the objective is to tinker at the edges while upsetting as few people as possible, this is what you get must expect.

It would also undermine one of the anti-LTN's commonest claims, that people want LTNs for themselves plus the right to driver anywhere in neighbouring areas; but if several LTNs form a larger entity this latter advantage does not actually exist.
Eg: Camden Town, Kentish Town & other areas (London).

I went to see a high-tech manuacturing business. They had half-a-dozen electronics & software engineers (2 at post-PhD level) plus half-a-dozen staff who managed line & filled cardboard boxes for despatching products. But in Ireland's case it is very much to do with its tax policies being attractive

The 'close one' with high prodn per person illustrates the potential for us to read too much into any one statistic. In this case the stat reflects the tax policies of the 'close one', not its production achievements. Need here is to relate distribution of high-tech & low-tech manf to each nation.

My experience with LS is from some time ago (when thePA rep on Camden council, a LibDem cllr, voted against the RCS & Tavipl after appearing supportive) I was for a while a trustee. The board was roughly divided into cycle haters & those who wanted a 'progressive' transport policy.

I'd say it is "a sense of ownership".