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In particular, there will be a 70 per cent increase in our spend on public transport over a three-year period. A new ScotRail franchise, new trains, platform lengthening, new rail lines, better concessionary fares—all of those are very important.
I can take an intervention later.Demand reduction will not be enough. We need new thinking about how we generate and transmit energy, and new technologies have a role to play.
If we were not quite so reliant on so many wind farms, the new line would not be necessary. With only minor upgrades needing to be made, new wind farms could be accommodated using existing infrastructure.Debates on pylons are nothing new.
Many focus group discussions took place last summer and we have been trying to test the system robustly. It is a new system that maintains many of the features and principles of the previous system; however, it is very much a new system.