ERTA Northampton Zoom Meeting, all welcome/open to all!

 

Email richard.erta@gmail.com for agendas or expressions of interest.

https://ertarail.co.uk/events/ has our forthcoming events listed. However, due to lockdown restrictions, our physical meetings are postponed and only on-line Zoom Meetings will take place until normalised circumstances improve. Please find Northampton and Great Central Zoom Meeting agendas and register with respective hosts whose details are included in the information provided. I also attach our latest diagram which shows how our re-railing part of the former Great Central Corridor with exciting pursuit of a Rugby-Leicester reinterpretation rebuild can deliver a new domestic north-south railway which brings rail to areas not served, reduces through choice road dependency cultures and informs access to new markets and linkages currently not available by rail. 

We continue to work with others to inform progress on all things Northampton in radial links terms and want the Government to set forth frameworks, incentives and nurturing of both route protections, enabling engineering flexibility more in urban cordons for example and funding more studies. £27 billion new roads, £500 million Rail Reopenings Fund - is not fair and hardly consistent with green transport credentials to reduce emissions, cut congestion and give people and freight more modal shift choices. Delivery counts in a so-called Climate Emergency as well as saving land which can be used for other things including conservation.

So please encourage others to tap into our events and take an interest, as it is an investment in our quality of life and for up and coming generations. 

Other consultations and reader material can be found on our Blogspot: https://ertarailvolunteer.blogspot.com/ including calls for a Northampton-Market Harborough rail rebuild with a north-west direct curve for direct freight from Felixstowe-Peterborough-Leicester and East Midlands itself to run direct into DIRFT Freight Terminal as well as going south via Northampton to its new depot and beyond to Milton Keynes, Oxford/Bristol/Southampton and vice versa. Loads of potential, as well as checking traffic and sustainability issues of development growth along A508 and M1 respectively. Thank you.