(01-25-2024, 02:19 PM)Protheroe Wrote: (01-25-2024, 01:14 PM)Borin' Baggie Wrote: https://archive.is/PVVEQ
Growth is critical, and regional growth is required. We can't just rely on London to prop up the UK, that has only ever been a recent phenomenon since the 1970s. Stop pissing about and build the fucking infrastructure, Labour cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the last 80 years.
Quite. They were talking about reopening the Camp Hill line when I lived on Station Road in Kings Heath 25 years ago.
They were talking about Kenilworth station for decades, they rebuilt it but only half of it despite saying they'd rebuild with both platforms. So now we have half a train station with an hourly service each way. The track bed is still there from the Victorian era, they have closed the line for HS2, they could redouble the sections that were singled in the 1960s very easily but Treasury says no. Because why would you want to improve connectivity between the biggest economic centre in Warwickshire and a city of 350,000 people that's only 10 minutes on the train? Not to mention it's a busy rail freight line.
Not too mention that plans to quad the WCML between Berkswell and New Street have been on hold - since the 1930s (I appreciate a war happened but that's the most congested section of railway in Europe but it's between the two biggest cities in the region and an airport). But Treasury says no.
