Well thats the end of that. This will never see the light of day. Ludicrous gold plating for a service that wont be needed for decades, if ever. In what world will more than two an hour from Cambridge to Bletchley ever be needed, never mind 4.
Impacting ~90 houses in Bedford (which face demolition, risk of demolition or land loss (see note at bottom of post)) to six track the line north from Bedford Station to the junction, when the slow lines north of Bedford carry a third of the traffic the slow lines south of Bedford do?
Shutting Kempston Hardwick when a town of 20,000 people called Wixams is being built next to it and the main line station has not materislised (and probably never will).
Shutting Millbrook. Sure its miles from Millbrook but it is on the edge of Marston Moretaine which has houses being built en masse.
Moving Ridgmont a mile away from the Amazon warehouse, it's main source of passengers.
Shutting Bow Brickhill when the area is being saturated with new housing.
Shutting Fenny Stratford a.k.a Wimbledon FC Stadium halt.
Two virtually unused low level platforms at Platforms at Bletchley not enough.
Shutting every single level crossing with some roads not replaced with bridges.
The signalling not fit for purpose and unreliable. Its significantly less than 20 years old?
Up to now the opposition has been uninfomed nimbies maundering on about night goods trains. Thus will turn it into a cause like the M3 through Winchester. It will upset EVERYONE, people living in Bedford, people whos road will be closed, plus the Bedford to Bletchley Rail Users, who's users association you cross at your peril, plus the nimbies.
They didn't even have the sense to propose a station at the north top of Bedford to serve the swaythes of Bedford northern suburbs that are nowhere near Bedford Station and give them some benefit in return for cutting a railway through the glorious countryside north of Bedford.
The cost is going to be absolutely astronomic and unaffordable in the post Covid world. We seem to have returned to modernisation plan levels of waste.
Any proposals need to be rational and proportional. These proposals are not and risk killing the project.
Note. Table 8.2 (page 294) in the technical report states as indicative worst case for the preferred six track option north of Bedford with new tracks on eastern side:
* 28 Demolished.
* 25 At risk of demolition.
* 44 lose land (chunk of garden or parking space)
Total: 97
Impacting ~90 houses in Bedford (which face demolition, risk of demolition or land loss (see note at bottom of post)) to six track the line north from Bedford Station to the junction, when the slow lines north of Bedford carry a third of the traffic the slow lines south of Bedford do?
Shutting Kempston Hardwick when a town of 20,000 people called Wixams is being built next to it and the main line station has not materislised (and probably never will).
Shutting Millbrook. Sure its miles from Millbrook but it is on the edge of Marston Moretaine which has houses being built en masse.
Moving Ridgmont a mile away from the Amazon warehouse, it's main source of passengers.
Shutting Bow Brickhill when the area is being saturated with new housing.
Shutting Fenny Stratford a.k.a Wimbledon FC Stadium halt.
Two virtually unused low level platforms at Platforms at Bletchley not enough.
Shutting every single level crossing with some roads not replaced with bridges.
The signalling not fit for purpose and unreliable. Its significantly less than 20 years old?
Up to now the opposition has been uninfomed nimbies maundering on about night goods trains. Thus will turn it into a cause like the M3 through Winchester. It will upset EVERYONE, people living in Bedford, people whos road will be closed, plus the Bedford to Bletchley Rail Users, who's users association you cross at your peril, plus the nimbies.
They didn't even have the sense to propose a station at the north top of Bedford to serve the swaythes of Bedford northern suburbs that are nowhere near Bedford Station and give them some benefit in return for cutting a railway through the glorious countryside north of Bedford.
The cost is going to be absolutely astronomic and unaffordable in the post Covid world. We seem to have returned to modernisation plan levels of waste.
Any proposals need to be rational and proportional. These proposals are not and risk killing the project.
Note. Table 8.2 (page 294) in the technical report states as indicative worst case for the preferred six track option north of Bedford with new tracks on eastern side:
* 28 Demolished.
* 25 At risk of demolition.
* 44 lose land (chunk of garden or parking space)
Total: 97
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