Good thread and it's well worth reading the paper (it's linked in the last post).

Some of my own comments in this thread

First, it's really good to see that the paper has either adopted the policies of or has come to the same conclusion as @Common_Weal's paper on rail nationalisation.

If we don't own all parts of the network, we can't strategically plan for

Excellent to see the plan include measures of how we get to the stations too. That has been too often omitted from previous attempts to do this kind of thing.

Also good to see some thought on intra-city travel as well as inter-city (again, something too often omitted) though I'll come back to that point.

And any plan that moves us away from cars being the default mode of travel is an improvement.

Great to see this out. Go and give it a read!

We spoke about the Citizens' Assembly and one of their most exciting plans on the Policy Podcast in

Go and read their reports at

Here are some of the policies they've called for that line up well with @Common_Weal polices (with links to our papers):

[Recommendation 3] A House of Citizens to oversee the Scottish Parliament -

[12] All tax-payer funded documentation to be automatically made publicly available and easily searchable -