Guildford-Brighton
Rail Rebuild-New Build ERTA Call July 2017
ERTA calls for the protection of the former
rail route between Guildford-Brighton railway line via Cranleigh, Horsham and
Shoreham and adequate lands for realignments where blockages exist to keep the
option open for reopening this corridor as a railway corridor with cycle paths
and foot paths being slewed or added on a widened platform alongside with a
fence in between for a transport-leisure corridor
which can cut congestion, reduce road traffic, save land, make modest
development more sustainable and offer many new rail direct journeys currently
laboriously lengthy, costly or inconvenient or non-existent. For example,
Oxford-Guildford-Brighton fast and vice versa, Brighton- Heathrow via Guildford
and vice versa - the reopening of this railway could enable such journeys with
overall benefit. Bringing places like Cranleigh back onto the railway map would
also make access and visitoriship a more attractive proposition and a new
parkway station could be made available intersecting the A24 so people could
have more options in their travel and commuting habits. It would also free up
seats on the direct London - Brighton line and enable people to commute to and
from Gatwick by rail from north of Guildford via Horsham and Three
Bridges-Redhill and back informing a loop. This would cut wait-over and clear
through tracks at Gatwick, keeping trains on the move and utilising existing
stock, saving costs. Due to blockages, a railway bypass is required at Cranleigh
to the west but the gains of a railway and a station there should be obvious to
most discerning people and places. ERTA seeks people to join and help act as
trackbed watchers, object to threats and blockages and call for the reopening
and further study of reopening with a view to taking the proposition
forward. https://ertarail.com/membership/ gives
details on how to join ERTA, it is simple, painless and every member can help
make a difference between re-rail or a non-rail desert with overcrowded roads,
parking blight and rising air pollution. There are choices to be made and we
can vote with our feet and wallets. Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment