No, the words 'Ken Skates' appeared in your post three times. Hence, 'three mentions'.
You clearly have a bee in your bonnet about the man. I don't know why and, quite frankly, I don't care. The fact that you've had FOI requests rejected for being 'vexatious' speaks volumes: one of the identifiers of a vexatious request is where the requester has a personal grudge against an office holder.
This grudge makes your posts difficult to follow, loaded as they are with barbed and repetitious mentions of the man: e.g. "Oh the joys of being a Transport Minister and arranging a Trawescymru network for the benefit of his own constituents.", "The T3 service is only used at weekends when Ken's constituents can go for a free trip to the seaside."
I apologise for being very blunt. You're fairly new to the board, so my advice to you is; chill out and drop the sarcastic comments - then people will engage. Continue as you are and you'll soon end up on people's ignore list...
PS My personal bugbear: there's no longer such thing as the 'WAG'. The 'Welsh Assembly Government' was renamed 'Welsh Government' by the Wales Act 2014.
Please do not apologise for being blunt . Far better to be blunt and speak the truth. I became “vexatious” in February 2018 one day after asking the WG for details of the proposed new Trawscymru Bangor to Chirk/Oswestry route, the existence of which had been squeezed out of Conwy County Council by the Information Commissioner on my behalf
With respect to the post you choose to criticise , perhaps you have no knowledge of the Trawscymru Network. I believe that what has happened with respect to destruction of the T2/T1 Bangor to Carmarthen route by the introduction of a T3 Wrexham to Barmouth service (against the recommendations of the Winckler review) involving the introduction of 15 minute waits for the T2 service in Dolgellau for late T3 services from Wrexham should be addressed. The latest performance monitoring data for the T3 reported in March 2018 show only 87% of Wrexham– Barmouth services are punctual set against the 95% standard employed by the Road traffic Commissioner. I am not sure whether the Traffic Commisioner would be entitled to impose a fine for this as the figure has deteriorated from that reported on 24/01/2017 which was 91%. This shows the 15 minute waits applied to the T2 service in Dolgellau are not working as in 13% of cases the T2 15 minute wait was irrelevant and the T3 still arrived more than 5 minutes late in Barmouth (therefore at least 15 minutes late into Dolgellau) . The only result of the T2 15 minute wait in Dolgellau is loss of connectivity between the T2 and the T1 in Aberystwyth.and this problem in Aberystwyth lies with the T3 route between Dolgellau and Wrexham which involves a journey time of 2 hrs 10 minutes. There and back is 4 hrs 20 minutes. Therefore the 15 minute wait of the hourly/2 hourly T2 service to wait for the T3 from Wrexham is just not enough as in reality the T2 should be waiting 20 minutes. There are plenty of options to allow this route (which has not changed for in excess of 50 years) to be redesigned and speed it up but the WG are intent on not doing this
The Winckler review recommended a feasibility study to route the T3 from Wrexham to Aberystwyth which would have avoided the above problem. This feasibility study was never carried out and the WG admitted this on 27/10/2017 and the Minister then had to commission it again which he did on 14/11/2017. saying
“”I have asked officials to commission a “”high-level” review to identify the benefits and operational feasibility of introducing additional Trawscymru services between Aberystwyth and Wrexham linking in with existing bus services and the rail network . We are expecting the review to be completed by the Spring and I will ask my officials to ensure Ceredigion County Council is consulted on this work””
The consultation with Ceredigion County Council never took place and a different review of the T3 Wrexham to Barmouth route was published ten months later (09/08/2018) on the WG website. (see
https://beta.gov.wales/sites/defaul...-recommendations-by-professor-stuart-cole.pdf).
This 09/08/2018 version of the review does not mention investigations, consultations , results , conclusions or recommendations on Trawscymru services between Aberystwyth and Wrexham. One month before on 09/07/2018 I received a different version of the review , which contained no reference whatsoever to Trawscymru services between Aberystwyth and Wrexham. My Information requests to the WG on why the earlier 09/07/2018 version contained no reference whatsoever to Trawscymru services between Aberystwyth and Wrexham.was considered to be “vexatious” but following my Information Request the review document was changed to add a brief reference to “Trawscymru services between Aberystwyth and Wrexham”. .
As for the barbed and repetitious comments are you sure that WG Ministers and their officials never resort to barbed and repetitious comments in their everyday responses to their fellow politicians, the media and the public. In my experience of 3 years of correspondence they have proved to be very capable of providing barbed and repetitious comments and have even requested that their comments should be classed as confidential and not revealed to me or anyone else. As for “criticising the policy not the person”, referencing the WELTAG document as being created by the Minister and referencing the South Clwydd AM constituency as belonging to the Minister is part and parcel of describing who are the relevant personnel involved. With respect to references to the WAG. The WG refuse to communicate and the Assembly is the only avenue along with external organisations that I can use to obtain any information . The Assembly have the job of holding the WG to account and therefore in all honesty I am dealing with the WAG.
PS
Has anyone had a view of the T11/T12 route evaluation?
Has anyone got a view on the T2 15 minute wait issue in Dolgellau , particularly those who have a knowledge of the Trawscymru network ?