09 January
2017
Press
Release
London Woes as Strikes and Sluggish Systems Fail to
deliver progressive improvements in a timely manner.
Today’s and other
recent strikes are no more ideological than those in Government who are passing
the buck of calling in Franchises and questioning whether more train services
should be handed to TfL to manage or not. The result is a paralysation and on the
ground whilst routine maintenance is happening, the grand scale plans seem
remiss as HS2 takes Government time and resource and the millions of ordinary
transport users are treated appallingly at cost.
ERTA believes the following should be looked at:
1. Tolling the M25
every 15 miles would inform a pot of money which could be used to invest to get
London moving.
2. Bringing to
fruition an urban London tram system would help central London cope with ever
more numbers of people and mobility issues. But cars need to be cleared from
Central London like Euston/St Pancras Road to enable trams and buses to get
through, currently the whole road network grinds to a halt.
3. Southern lines
like the Brighton Line needs to be made into Continental Loading Gauge and Dutch
double-decker trains need to be imported to cater for growing volume of usage
to relatively static terminal and track/station access capacity. Dutch
double-deck trains are decades long tried and tested technology and this would
enable greater numbers in more comfort to access existing terminals.
4. Crossrail will be east-west, Southern radial lines are north-south like the Brighton Main Line.
Crossrail 2 or 3 will take decades to deliver; we need something done interim
to ease the pain of high volume London commute dependency, so the quicker plans
to compulsory purchase and deliver Continental Loading Gauge are put in place
the better for all.
End Press Release
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