re: https://www.thesun.co.uk/
This is the result of campaigning, not quangos paid to improve better public transport and access. So we're in the right league and the others need reforming for more rail-based solutions, saving miles of extra driving. What would also be nice is for the roll-on-roll-off shuttle across the Channel Tunnel to have an advanced in-land outlet south of M25, to take the strain earlier and go straight through?
BRTA has called for curves from both the Tonbridge and Guildford lines for direct running south to Gatwick and Brighton etc, but these have one hand of interest saying "yes" and others "absolutely not!" Pragmatism is 1. It is a falsity to suggest such would undermine Redhill and 2. If the North Downs Line was electrified as a third-rail, Thameslinks could run through to Guildford from East Croydon and vice versa and going north, access to a wider network linking with destinations like Luton Airport, Bedford, Peterborough and Cambridge for example; as they do to Horsham. Alas, we need flexibility and pragmatism. The idea of a direct rail flyover linking the Tonbridge line and that of the North Downs Line should also be studied to establish 1. Can it be done and 2. Should it be done?
Some seem to have a 19th century view of railways whereby people love changing at every nook and cranny, whereas actually, there is a view that people like the convenience of direct a-to-b travel!
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BRTA is not pleased that despite cuts elsewhere, the government finds £9 billion for a road-based Lower Thames Crossing with no parallel rail-based tunnel as well or indeed, instead of? East Anglia and North Kent deserve better use of taxpayers money and need rail alternatives to reduce congestion, pollution and in all probability, save money and land too?
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