For the few of you who have not followed Thomas’s project: Mini-Switzerland is a plan to integrate timetables for easy interchange between buses and between train and bus. The aim is that from any village you can reach as many places as possible within an hour or two by public transport, without a car. A national demonstrator is currently funded by central government, with the idea that if it works, local authorities elsewhere could have one too, knowing what it does.
What is TAG and how it is used
The vast majority of transport investment in the UK is made only after its costs and benefits have been analysed using the Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG), and it has been found to represent Value for Money for taxpayers.
TAG is truly world-class guidance, which other countries look to when they shape their own. In the UK, TAG is the dishwasher from Sutherland’s line. It forces every investment into a particular shape.
