Loads happening and our team is being built to address the many campaigns and multiple tasks each one throws up.
This consultation needs people to wade in and lobby them to consider the things we wish for and incorporate them into their agenda. They seem dazzled by HS2 and roads?
The rail agenda we wish for is:
a. Bedford-Northampton
b. Northampton-Market Harborough
c. Great Central corridor re-railing with deviations and new pieces.
d. Leicester-Burton-on-Trent
e. Derby-Manchester via Matlock-Bakewell-Buxton/
f. March-Spalding - should have been route protected long ago, a new route is required arriving at Deeping St Nicholas maybe with sidings and capacity wait over and a new station built-in. Otherwise it is perverse, it all goes by road and then they say demand for roads is up! The stats are synthetically inflated. We need decent well maintained roads, but rebalancing also of the rail alternative for passenger and freight.
g. Woodhead for Hull-Liverpool via several routes and variations
including Sheffield and Manchester - Manchester needs more capacity, should be being planned now.
h. Stations for the Desborough area and Kibworth (serving over a 5 mile catchment each).
Finally, our conference on Zoom this Saturday (26th) still has spare places, it is not too late to join us and join in, please register with Mr Simon Barber T. 0208 940 4399, E. simon4barber@gmail.com
Please see attached.
Please campaign to Midlands Connect and get them on board for more of what we may wish for rail-wise. Unless routes are protected, study funding forth-coming and on-going and delivery given go-ahead for spades on the ground/shovel ready in escalator and conveyor belt terms, we fail successive generations and fail to grasp the preparation of crucial infrastructure for environmental, social and economic robustness going forwards. In short hope made real. Please help us.
Midland Main Line electrification is fine, but existing rails are not enough for modal shift and we need an exact same level playing field approach by councils and other agencies to ensure all options are retained and progressed with delivery in mind. We don't want everything, but select and carefully thought-through projects which reduce traffic through rail alternatives. Thank you.
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