Clive
No views on what is potentially the most significant infrastructure investment in the SW since I don't know when, or is February 'so yesterday' now that the sun doth shine?
http://www.railfuture.org.uk/article1497-Dawlish-choice Link above to comments on the awaited study, then follow link at bottom of that page to the pdf of the full 46 page study. Figure 10 on Page 26 of the fast DAL options and Table 9 on Page 36 make interesting viewing. Luckily there is total commitment to the Dawlish seawall/line whatever else is done. One particularly ...
@Lynne - the 'let's look at the alternative/additional options' scenario I wonder, is the belief that it keeps SW MPs happy per see, or that it keeps the MPs happy because they in turn then believe that they are then empowered to pass on the charade to keep their constituents happy? I suspect that NR would genuinely love to have a hassle free shiny new line (why wouldn't they like ...
And I completely understand the absolute necessity of Dawlish keeping its station. Devon is littered with resorts that never recovered from losing their station, Ilfracombe being perhaps the best example.
p.s. @flo - i also entirely empathise with your 'commuters dilema'.
@flo thanks for flagging this up - there seems to be a lot of economy in the pace of the details being dribbled out! how contentious can it be!!! At the risk of repeating myself from a number of similar strands: 1. The current 'path raising' at Sea Lawn is but very minor works compared with the not unexpected £400m cost, or whatever, to properly tame the waves once and for all at Dawlish. ...
@FredBassett ...speaking with one voice is perfectly possible with no losers if the sw backs oke-tavy...although this isn't the true engineering solution, it is the most affordable, least disruptive and could be done in a fraction of the time of a fast dal. also changes nothing about committment to the devon riviera line. should ideally include a 'north of cowley chord' (if the cowley bridge ...
Pre-paying for hospital parking anywhere is the most disingenuous form of parking revenue I can possibly think of. Planners know full well that many people will be obliged to overpay from fear of being stuck waiting in the hospital for unpredictable lengths of time. Worse still, at a time of stress or emergency it is very likely you won't have a pocket full of coins on arrival, just to add to ...
...and very well deserving it is too. However, just a little bit of my cynicism tells me...keep piling on the praise of how quick and well it was all done and we will have made at least half a case to commit to nothing major this side of the election.
p.s. Mr Streeter MP is quite right to say (WMN 04/07) that the SW must speak 'with one voice in the peninsula'. United we stand... etc
