John Lauder, former CEO of Sustrans thinks so.John, now in post permanently with Scotland's Railway following a 12-month secondment, is now leading the development of 'A Railway for Everyone', an accessibility strategy to be published later this autumn. A Railway for Everyone straddles accessibility and sustainable transport and focuses on how people get to, and move around in, stations.
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In many ways, rail is seen as the ultimate form of decarbonised transport. It is efficient, relatively fast and not always as dependent on fossil fuels as most of its competitors.
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