Makes for interesting reading:
http://www.jsptu-avon.gov.uk/publicatio ... rategy.pdf
Can't help but think that the cost of all these studies, strategies and reports far outweight the cost of simply getting on with the job of sticking the rails down though.
Rail Strategy Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare. 2000-2011
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clive moore
beeching strikes again
The one thing that strikes me about all of these reports is that they look at the railways as a social requirement, not like richard beeching who looked at them as a financial requirement (the less the cost to the government the better). If beeching hadn't done his job the report writters would be out of a job, but the railways would be working as we wished. Problem the cost. But i often wonder wether all of money spent on trying to cope with the increased road traffic if invested in the railways would still be enough to of kept the system we had. because people would still use thier cars. O.K. perhaps not as much, but they would and we would all then be complaining about the lack of investment in the roads. Inspite of this i still believe that beeching got it wrong, the truth is probably somewhere in between.