In other words, “If you build it, they will come!”.

Well that bit aoiut nationalism is utter nonsense stopping stifling immigration, consider west of swansea, full of English incomers

Very commendable I say. However it acquires the bad taste of virtue signalling by sharing his decision with Owen Jones of all people. The classic example of AngloBrit, Londoncentric, supremacist, colonialist, pseudo socialist twat. I could go on and call him other things but you would most likely choose not to print them. Michael should look more closely with whom he chooses to share his thoughts as the other party can diminish their value.

Footfalling a central zone is a place to extract cash for provision of low or no apparent practical need.

Such zones appear at the end of supermarket isles where punters think they happen upon a bargain but in reality it’s dead stock you’d otherwise throw out, or a central place in a department store which you stuff with frippery of highest gross margin. In transportation it’s where the revenue per mile is actually the highest, like inside the circle line of the London underground. When you design a retail network the concept is to get them there either by temptation or by creating avoidance barriers.

Of course, you can adapt the concept to deal with overcrowding to distribute the node elsewhere, along a strip, by means of state intervention, a form or regeneration. It’s not a new concept. Here an original example from Germany, which is older than you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc{removetoplay}

In terms of profitability only the running cost is paid for by patrons, the burden of capital cost is municipal or the state. The benefits are off-track. You can also build in satellite nodes, to footfall. Fill a dead zone in a supermarket, or in the case of a transportation network regenerate former industrial areas. DLR in London is a classic example as is Lille Europe for longer distance.

Send him a set of “knacker crackers” and he can self administer. I’m sure he’ll be ever so gentle with himself !

An interesting take, but you could have just as easily have shut this moron down by pointing out that the police, judiciary, armed forces, the roads, schools, the NHS, bin rounds etc etc all make a ‘loss’ according to his simple criteria. But lo! They’re apparently part of this revolutionary idea called ‘Public Services’! One question though: what do you mean by that bit about footfalling a central zone?

With such eloquent prose like that, your talent bleeds through these pixels like greasy sweat through the pores of a fat man. You’ve been stiffled too long, friend!

Now then, ‘Aled’ / ‘Dave’, I’ve been unusually indulgent of your silliness. First, you take out a Gmail address to impersonate somebody else but you can’t carry it off because fundamentally you’re just anti-Welsh, but pretending to be a Plaid Cymru supporter.

So, take yourself away before I expose you, because I really do know where you live.

Plenty to equate with 1930’s Germany in that rant, we Welsh people are not an ethnic group that is just a silly thing to say given the low population before the industrial revolution and the overseas immigration in the 20th century which is welcome.

As for Plaid being ”irrelevant” we’ll see in May when they go up against far right Gwlad.