Councillor Clyde Loakes, deputy leader and cabinet member for the environment, explains: "Given the scale of the proposals, a live test was crucial in understanding how such a scheme could work, rather than implementing proposals without any proper testing.
"We are shocked at the scale of the proposals but it looks like the company do appear to be keen to engage with us over the voluntary redundancies," said Paul Holleran, the NUJ's Scottish organiser.
Mervyn Kohler of Help the Aged has said: The government has turned a blind eye on older people… older people were desperately looking for substantial help this winter… but the scale of the proposals utterly misses the urgency of the needs of our older population.
The key to understanding the vast scale of the proposals is the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, which was devised 12 years ago in an attempt to preserve the dwindling amount of open space around the state and halt the unplanned proliferation of strip malls and subdivisions.
Phillip Skill, head of planning, said it was a "cheap" way to assess the building heights and "get a visual feel" for the scale of the proposals.
Any discussion of local or community contributions to electricity system transitions was effectively crowded out by the controversy surrounding the industrial scale of midlands proposals.
On EQ (aka state-compelled hacking of devices/systems), King says the sheer scale of the proposals are staggering — noting that the bill now affords domestic law enforcement, as well as security agencies, access to hugely intrusive capabilities to hack into systems.
"The scale of these proposals is unprecedented," Eric de Place, senior researcher at Seattle-based Sightlinenvironmentalan environmenthinkhink tank, said during a press call on Thursday.
Concerns raised included the scale of the proposal, the social and economic impacts, traffic and noise issues, and hours of operation.
And the sheer scale of the proposal means that it would be a heavy lift politically.Alon Levy, a transport blogger Gulliver has linked to before, has an alternative suggestion: Amtrak should focus on manageable, small-scale, high-impact projects that will slowly increase speed over the Boston-Washington route.
