Transport is responsible for around a third of carbon emissions. Not all of us drive, and cars are expensive contributors to climate change.
The South East of Scotland Transport Partnership, on which two Scottish Borders councillors sit, aims to cut carbon emissions from car miles by 20% by 2030. So we must improve, not cut, public transport in the Borders, and then use it as much as we can.
A study for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Every Village, Every Hour, concludes that rural people need every significant settlement served by buses from six in the morning until midnight. Only with that level of service will people make the shift from car to bus.
That idea has yet to gain traction in the Scottish Borders, but Scottish Borders Greens think it should.
