From Transport Scotland – Information regarding fixated correspondents: FOI release published today:
Information requested
Information on what topics fixated correspondents have written about and how many times, including copies of emails from and to the individuals.
Response
To provide some context, the terms fixated and persistent are used interchangeably. Both terms are used to describe a correspondent who writes in on the same topic(s) in a repetitive manner despite their query receiving a full and complete response.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section(s) 38(1) (b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. To assist in answering your follow up question on topics, I can broadly categorise the two topics which have resulted actions through our Customer Code of Conduct to be around road safety and bus ticketing.
Road safety
The correspondent has written in to Transport Scotland with over 100 pieces of correspondence, some of which has exceeded 25 pages per letter. The restriction was applied due to conduct, language and tone being vexatious.Bus ticketing
Similarly the correspondent discussing bus ticketing wrote in 5 times, with one letter exceeding 60 pages. The complaint was addressed in full during Transport Scotland’s original response, and follow letters repeated the original point and no different response could be provided.
I was shocked to read this.
Why?
Well, judging by the mass media, opposition party, ‘islander’ fixation with Scotland’s various ferry ‘fiascos’, these last few years I, understandably you’ll agree, thought the above FOI must be about the ferries. ‘Our’ media have had, in contrast, little to say about buses or road safety, in that same time period.
So, what is Transport Scotland trying to hide here. If you are one of the tens of thousands whose lives have been royally f****d by the ferries or lack of them, get writing today. You owe it to yourselves and to the islanders. You know, those other locals coming in to support your business?
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In light of the May 7th result, and if was editor of the newspaper that purport’s to produce “Trusted Journalism”. I would be seriously looking at how much resource and effort was put into promoting the “Ferry Fiasco” series against what it actually achieved and who sanctioned it.
From my perspective, the distortion of the subject by the media rather than the message became the story for those that were interested. The public at large did not consider it to be a significant factor in the election.
I wonder how many readers gave up on that “Trusted Journalism” during the ensuing journalistic fiasco.
Stephen McKenzie
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Most Islanders on TV complaining seem to be incomers that expect the same level of access to services as they had in their old rural home. I am sure there are cases where ferries could be a lifeline but they are also a victim of their own success making travel to the islands cheaper and more accessible. We are all on an island that Westminster policies have royally screwed up access to resources on the European mainland.
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Many years ago a friend who lived on one of the Islands in Scotland, had a child who had an appendix emergency, they a were taken to a hospital on the mainland by Ambulance helicopter…for life saving treatment.
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