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Supply Chain Disruption | Musings from the Chiefio


Just a short note on the effects of “Supply Chain Disruption”.

I was watching a video about RV Life (as we may end up doing that) and the “story” of that episode was about tyres. These folks had a Big Class A with what looked like 19.5 or 22.5 inch (industrial truck sized) rims and tyres. The basic point they were making was that “they got the last 6 tyres of that size in the nation”. The tyre company had to call all over the place to fine tires, one at a time, and have them shipped Fed-Ex to them to install a set.

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Paris To Become 100% Cycling City Within Four Years, Reveals New Plan – Forbes


Carlton Reid Oct 22, 2021

Paris is to increase the number of protected cycleways in the city as well as boost bicycle parking spaces, reveals the 2021-2026 cycling plan published October 21 and billed as Plan Velo: Act 2.
(Plan Velo is the existing, $174 million cycling plan which has been getting bolder and bolder with each update.)
The desire is to make the French capital—not that long ago a city that was toxic for everyday cycling—into a “100% cyclable city.”
As well as the creation of extra facilities for cyclists the new $290 million plan also pledges to maintain them with promises of “cleaning and snow removal from cycle paths.”
Cycle parking in the city will be significantly increased at the same time as car parking spaces are removed.
Paris is already in the process of removing more than 70% of its on-street car parking spaces.

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Sunak criticised for failing to deliver on key infrastructure projects | Autumn budget 2021 | The Guardian


Labour criticises chancellor ahead of budget for ‘lots of announcements and not much delivery’

Peter Walker Sun 24 Oct 2021

Labour has criticised Rishi Sunak for “lots of announcements and not much delivery” on infrastructure projects, as the chancellor conceded that of £7bn in this week’s budget for expanding regional transport links, only £1.5bn is new money.
The chancellor said the metro mayors Andy Street and Andy Burnham had welcomed the announcements. “So what the money announced yesterday was about is about what we call intracity transportation, that’s about how do we get people who live in and around a city to be able to get into the middle of it and out again easily,” he said.
Challenged on how much of the £7bn for this was new, Sunak said he had already announced £4.2bn for the “overall envelope for improve how people get around our big cities … What we’ve actually done is top that up, as you said, by £1.5bn, but then crucially give out the allocations in that envelope – where all the bits are going to go.”

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