Under pressure from public transport campaigners, rolling stones will in future gather moss – but only at designated pick-up points across Ravengate village.
The change of heart comes after new figures released by Transport for Ravengate showed the innovative mass transit system had not carried a piece of moss in its first year of operation.
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Following pressure from transport rights campaigners, TfR admitted its contract with the supplier had “some minor loopholes”. TfR had initially stumped up over £1million for a five-year contract to ensure that moss was collected.
“Every piece of moss matters,” said a TfR spokesman at the time. “We understand that some moss in outlying areas cannot access vital local services and this arrangement will ensure that mosses, lichens and other symbiots, such as fungus, will be able to roll anywhere and play a full part in civic life.”
Operator Rolling Stone (Ravengate) had initially objected to TfR’s reforms, saying, “Read the small print. This is literally the opposite of what we agreed to do.”