Dawlish News
The leaders of Teignbridge and Exeter City Council have written to Ministers expressing their dismay at the Government's unwillingness to fund rail in the South West.
Was the privatisation of the British Rail network just a dream I had ? I thought it was sold in it's entirety to the private sector between 1994 and 1997, strange.
What planet do these pair of dim witted councilors live on. Network rail were never going to spend millions on the coastal line. They were only ever going to do what was needed to get the trains running again in order to stop all the moaning and groaning from places cutoff from their rail service.
Its also fairly obvious to a total idiot why the govermnet wont fund the surveys and thats because you can safely bet the decision to move the main line inland has already been made. The only reason the councillors are getting involved is because when the new route is open network rail will no longer maitain the sea wall and Teignbridge will have to take over the role at their cost.
What Teignbridge councillors should be doing is making plans for developing Dawlish and the Warren sea fronts with a view to improving tourism. The potential for business and new investment will be massive without the railway line standing in the way
@FredBassett - when has teignbridge councillors ever listened to what the taxpayer/rate payers of dawlish want! come to that,even some of the past dawlish council's have gone ahead with spending hard earned taxes/rates on projects with out first seeking the thoughts of the locals.
@Purrrrfect - Your dead right there look at the chaos being caused on Exeter Road again down by Elm grove road and Eastcliff. Another totally useless stretch of cycle path which non of the Lycra loonies will ever use. Its a complete waste of money constructing cycle paths unless the law states that when available they have to be used. Hopefully the ever increasing number of pot holes will make them stay off the road
But Fred the extension to the cycle path is going to regenerate the town centre so the powers that be tell us.
Are these the same powers that be, that tell us we need 2,500 new homes to meet local housing needs when in fact when surveyed the local need was actually 3. Or the same powers that allow developers to buy their way out of section 106 agreements and threaten to compulsary purchase peoples livelyhoods on false pretences. Enough said as nobody seems in favour of ousting them as unfit for purpose by issuing a vote of no confidence in them
I wonder what the next idea for regeneration will be when they find that thousands of cyclists haven't used the new cycle path.
It has to be horse and carts hasent it. Mind you Ted Hockin and co are probably working on that already with their backward thinking policies, they will probably need quite a few meetings with buffet lunches and several scoping visits on expenses first though. Allthough having the noses in the trough with the horses wont be strange to them.
I know how about we pedestrianise Brunswick Place and sell off Barton car park to Aldi or Lidl or maybe buy an old Blackpool tram and a replica Stevensons Rocket and run em up and down what will be the dissused railway line
So there you have it as per Westcountry ITV news. More false promises from Cam-moron and his fellow Con-servatives. Not only no inland replacement line, but no improvement to the existing coast line either. Think its time Anne-Marie Morris, Jeremy Christophers and the rest of the incompetence party stood down and called a by-election. The time for UKIP has arrived.
By the way anyone noticed how narrow Exeter Road is getting down by the new cycle path at Eastcliff. Good isent it the lycra loonies contribute nothing but get a priority cycle path at tax payers expense and wont even use it, whillst the tax paying motorists face being side swiped by HGVs and buses due to the narrowness of the carriageway. Wait till the mental stagecoach drivers come head to head with a Saino's arctic.
@FredBassett - good points, don't the local/district/county council's get some sort of allowance for the total number of miles of cycle path on their patch. i saw to often the lunacy of these developements in london, when i lived there. they would take an extremely busy road, which always had hundred's of cars parked on it and put a cycle path on it. the cyclist's could never use it because people parked their cars outside their homes - what a surprise.
I must admit I cycle, motorcycle, use a car and have a range rover, but putting cycle paths in dangerous and inappropriate places just for bragging rights of how much cycle path a particular council has is just stupid and dangerous for ALL road user's.
Many cyclist's also pay to drive their other taxable/insureable vehicles on the road. Although I must admit some of the lycra brigade do seem to contract white van man ailments when they get on the road. Maybe it's the empowerment they get from tight lycra, it seems to work for Superman!