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[_] at the risk of upsetting any (_)'s who believe the car is the route of all evil

Andy Davies dajdavies at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 16:08:17 GMT 2007 

On 05/01/07, Tom Gidden <tom at gidden.net> wrote:
>
> With regards to your points about public transport, I'm not
> completely sure that's right.  As far as I know, most subsidised bus
> routes are paid for by the city or county councils, out of the
> Council Tax.



Council Tax is only something like 25% of council funding, the rest comes
from a 'block grant' from Central Government (allows central gov to exert
plenty of control over what happens on a local level).

Andy