Egg Centric
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Not sure if this is the right part of the forum as this is part politics, part speculative, and part infrastructure.
But on Thursday there is a vote up here for the North East mayor. Kim is one of the two credible - by which I mean can plausibly win - candidates and one of her pledges is to reopen the Leamside line.
What's involved in that from both a political perspective (e.g. does the mayor have any power to direct this, either by telling NR to do it or perhaps allocating money there) and more importantly from perspective of this forum a technical perspective? There are some old threads lying around but they don't say very much as far as I can see.
Please keep any non Leamside Line politics out of this thread
Addendum: I just googled and the only other credible candidate (using the same definition of credible) Jamie Driscoll also backs it. But does the support of either actually mean anything?
But on Thursday there is a vote up here for the North East mayor. Kim is one of the two credible - by which I mean can plausibly win - candidates and one of her pledges is to reopen the Leamside line.
What's involved in that from both a political perspective (e.g. does the mayor have any power to direct this, either by telling NR to do it or perhaps allocating money there) and more importantly from perspective of this forum a technical perspective? There are some old threads lying around but they don't say very much as far as I can see.
Please keep any non Leamside Line politics out of this thread
Addendum: I just googled and the only other credible candidate (using the same definition of credible) Jamie Driscoll also backs it. But does the support of either actually mean anything?
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