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Published Date: 28 November 2007
THE ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) has deferred a decision on possible Sunday sailings to Lewis.
The CalMac board will consider "numerous unsolicited requests" for a seven-day service, along with demands to keep the status quo, at its meeting in Fort William today.

However, the company says it will not be taking any decision on these requests, pending clarification of the Scottish Government's pilot study on road equivalent tariff (RET). In August, the administration announced it would conduct a trial RET scheme which bases the cost of travelling to an island by ferry on the equivalent distance by road.

Peter Timms, the chairman of CalMac, said: "The current study of a RET pilot scheme for the Western Isles does not allow us to make a final decision before the study findings are published and the implications have been considered."



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  • Last Updated: 27 November 2007 9:28 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Caledonian MacBrayne
 
1

Guga II,

Rockall 28/11/2007 10:10:18

What a load of rubbish. They are running scared of the curamachs. R.E.T. has nothing to do with Sunday sailings.

MacBrayne's (i.e. the Scottish government) had better look out as denying us Sunday sailings is a breach of our human rights.

2

Kobi,

28/11/2007 17:11:23

Getting a ferry crossing is not a human right. If you want to leave on a Sunday, get rowing.

3

Guga II,

Rockall 28/11/2007 17:41:34

#2 Listen sunshine, if your only method of travelling was a ferry, i.e. it was the equivalent of your road, or bridge, and you weren't allowed to use it on a Sunday, you'd soon be shouting about your human rights.

Until you live here, you can't possibly comment.

4

Kobi,

28/11/2007 17:50:01

Have lived there, so can comment as much as I like.

Still does not make it a human right.


 

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