🧵 1/2: Hear from the #freight professionals complaining the #UK government has done everything not just to derail #greentransport but also to keep adding to their costs:
"There isn't a single route that we run that we can do end-to-end on #electric traction" (yes, they use #diesel trains, ever smelt those?) and "#railtrack access charge has increased by 140% since 2010" (oh, the year the #Tories came to power!) .
I cannot overstate how "third world" this is looking...
https://www.channel4.com/news/why-is-the-uk-not-exploiting-technology-for-net-zero-trains
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