Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Government's response to the National Infrastructure's Report revealed in the Budget today and our concerns are that:
1. The rail link bypasses Bedford town centre/report misses Bedford off in the title and intent
2. There's no provision for an east-north rail access allowing trains (passenger and freight) to enter Bedford Midland from the east - vital for taking current 150 mile freights via London to West Midlands off existing lines creating more paths and capacity for more trains - affects Bedford, Milton Keynes and Northampton respectively
3. Light Rail part of Marston Vale seems detrimental when it would be more cost effective to retain it as it is, improve reliability, timetable and rolling stock and open a halt to serve the Kempston Retail Park - also truncating the line at Wixams could sever the town centre-Bletchley link of the current shuttle of Marston Vale operations, seems counter-intuitive.
ERTA will monitor progress and interject as and when and where as may.
1. The rail link bypasses Bedford town centre/report misses Bedford off in the title and intent
2. There's no provision for an east-north rail access allowing trains (passenger and freight) to enter Bedford Midland from the east - vital for taking current 150 mile freights via London to West Midlands off existing lines creating more paths and capacity for more trains - affects Bedford, Milton Keynes and Northampton respectively
3. Light Rail part of Marston Vale seems detrimental when it would be more cost effective to retain it as it is, improve reliability, timetable and rolling stock and open a halt to serve the Kempston Retail Park - also truncating the line at Wixams could sever the town centre-Bletchley link of the current shuttle of Marston Vale operations, seems counter-intuitive.
ERTA will monitor progress and interject as and when and where as may.
Hope of interest, we very much want a Bedford-Northampton link included, sadly Northampton is left out, change at Bletchley is time consuming. So Bedford and Northampton are marginalised.
On other news, we're still seeking 3 more speakers for our conference next April and 28 delegates, likewise we need a new volunteer webmaster to update our word press website for us. Kind, able and patient are ideal qualities. All offers and enquiries to my colleague Mr Simon Barber: Simon Barber T. 0208 940 4399/E. simon4barber@gmail.com
Yours sincerely,
Richard Pill
ERTA Chairman.
ERTA Chairman.
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