It would really help me and no doubt thousands of others if there was a line from Luton to Milton Keynes.
I can absolutely see the merit in this - what I can't for the life of me see is how it could be done !
As someone who knows far more about these things than I even begin to claim to - is there even a remotely viable option ? By which I mean one which doesn't give HS2 a run for its money in the cost stakes and doesn't fundamentally screw up the MML or WCML timetabling.
I think that was considered as an option for EWR, at least from Bletchley, but discarded partly because of the difficulty of continuing eastwards to the ECML and Cambridge and because it was too far south to be the optimum Oxford-MK-Cambridge route. It looks relatively easy to diverge off the MML at Sundon (grade separation needed though) and follow the M1 to join the Bedford-Bletchley line at Ridgmont. It always struck me as a sensible section but obviously out of line with EWR's objectives - but perhaps something this Arc study ought to be considering?
Wasn't there also a not insignificant matter of where you went after Luton, bearing in mind the MML and both stations (Town and Parkway) are at the bottom of a very steep hill ? Add in the fact the MML's capacity constrained with its current Thameslink and EMR demands ?
That's in addition to the key aim of EWR being connection of Oxford - MK - Cambridge.