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If we are talking about having active, sustainable transport and moving people from the train station to wherever they work or are visiting, we must try to integrate rail travel with other networks.On the research that indicated that car use would not increase in the way that had been predicted, car use is still increasing and the modal share for public tra...
Many things that should have been done years ago have slipped into the future. I recently visited Campbeltown, which represents a real story of how things should not be done.
They do that through an active programme of ambassadorial work, talking to community groups and getting out and visiting the community. They are not directly elected, but they see themselves as the representatives of the public.
As members may have seen reported, I have visited the first of them, Addiewell, which will come on track in January 2009 and provide approximately 700 badly needed places.
We have considered research on what is happening in Scandinavia and we will have another look at it when we get the results of the pilot, to see whether other approaches can inform our decisions. Are you suggesting that we visit those countries? I do not know about that.
In particular, the SNP manifesto stated:"If a child goes missing, then there will be a tough response with sex offenders in the area visited, and if necessary premises searched, without a warrant."
However, we have had debates about Scottish Screen, about some issues in Scottish Opera and about Creative Scotland, and we are now debating a bill that will bring together Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.