It's a NE town, after all

Fortunately I have a spare to replace it with, Crafty, it has had little use

I know trains were a huge market considering the history of the town and trains in general.

They could still be if governments had vision

That's bureaucracy for you

Steel was also big here

Instead of improving and greening public transport and freight, self loathing progressive urban cunts like PeP and the PFE are insistent on taking a massive shit on living standards and people's freedom to travel

tbh buses are okay here. Even if they decided not to come every other Saturday

Is it a fleet of electric/gas buses?

Is it so cheap that it's cheaper than a car?

Which is a pain when I am at the bus stop until 8:30pm and it's supposed to arrive at 8pm

It's cheaper than a car, yes. But I've just decided to walk through town instead.

Even if I have to walk down a proper rough area of town it's w/e

But it's not electric/gas though, so it's not green

It's not the roughest area in town, but there's always a fire in a specific section because that's where some homeless sleep

But it is a fleet of electric/gas

They have that stupid white bulge on the roof

Sounds like they need to get their shit together and get these homeless people the help they need

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Someone on Radio 4 today stated it'd only cost 16bn a year to move social care into the NHS. Sounds awfully low to me

While at the same time being absolutely essential

We do have food banks and hostels here

If you've got people on the streets, then the social system has already failed them

Have you seen the people on the streets?

Not yours, no

They're all thieves and drug addicts. Giving them free shit doesn't help, they only end up abusing it and going straight back onto the street.

I didn't say "give them free shit"

I said if they're on the streets, then the social system has already failed them

Why did they end up as thieves and drug addicts? What's the best way to alleviate either at a societal and cultural level?

Probably because of the areas in which they live. I reckon a lot of the homeless come from the proper rough area, the one where posties aren't allowed to go after a certain time etc

Concentrated poverty, then

Family breakdown

It's the area you don't go because they all know who lives there and they'll target any kind of outsiders.

Pretty much everyone there is a fatherless household on benefits.

Probably needs bulldozing and it's population dispersed

That's what was happening in an area my dad used to live in before he moved in with my mum.

Thatcher did away with the nearest thing we had to a ghetto in the town I grew up in

With right to buy - enough bought up the council houses that the area self-gentrified

They built new houses and more socially aware people moved in, upping the value and improving the area somewhat.

Before that it was an area you didn't go unless you wanted to be stabbed.