The Climate Crisis: An Interchat with Ben Plowden
What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street?
In today's Interchat with 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, we discuss the machinery of government, why combined authorities should never be treated as a single category and the local transport authorities now spending 70% of their budgets on social care.
We also discuss my own despair about the climate crisis - and Ben's rather more useful answer to it.
What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street?
In today's Interchat with 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, we discuss the machinery of government, why combined authorities should never be treated as a single category and the local transport authorities now spending 70% of their budgets on social care.
We also discuss my own despair about the climate crisis - and Ben's rather more useful answer to it.
Interchats are a series of short conversations recorded on the conference floor at Interchange 26 in Manchester.
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The Bee Network - An Interchat With Vernon Everitt
How much of the Bee Network's success is franchising, and how much is just money?
Vernon is candid that franchising is probably not for everybody. But if you want genuine integration across every mode, he argues, you cannot do it without control of the buses and the fare revenue.
This is the first Interchat recorded by Katie English, my Freewheeling associate.
How much of the Bee Network's success is franchising, and how much is just money?
In today's Interchat with Vernon Everett, Transport Commissioner for Greater Manchester and chair of Transport for Wales, we get his answer, along with the numbers behind it: reliability up from 65% to over 80%, ridership up 30% in the first franchised area and eight commuter rail lines joining the network from the end of 2026.
Vernon is candid that franchising is probably not for everybody. But if you want genuine integration across every mode, he argues, you cannot do it without control of the buses and the fare revenue.
This is the first Interchat recorded by Katie English, my Freewheeling associate.
Interchats are a series of short conversations recorded on the conference floor at Interchange 26 in Manchester.
You can subscribe to The Freewheeling Podcast at Apple or Spotify Podcasts.
You can subscribe to The Freewheeling Podcast at Apple or Spotify Podcasts.
Innovation in Transport - an Interchat with Erika Lewis
Transport finds innovation hard. It is fiendishly complex, but the. Connected Places Catapult is trying to help people navigate their way through it. In this Interchat, Erika Lewis, the Catapult’s CEO, tells me how they try to connect an incredibly challenging sector - and how her career history in complex sectors has helped her do that.
Oh, and she tells me precisely what a Catapult is as well!
Interchats are a series of short conversations recorded on the conference floor at Interchange 26 in Manchester.
Transport finds innovation hard. It is fiendishly complex, but the. Connected Places Catapult is trying to help people navigate their way through it. In this Interchat, Erika Lewis, the Catapult’s CEO, tells me how they try to connect an incredibly challenging sector - and how her career history in complex sectors has helped her do that.
Oh, and she tells me precisely what a Catapult is as well!
Interchats are a series of short conversations recorded on the conference floor at Interchange 26 in Manchester.
You can subscribe to The Freewheeling Podcast at Apple or Spotify Podcasts.
You can subscribe to The Freewheeling Podcast at Apple or Spotify Podcasts.