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Old February 19th 05, 11:24 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Francis Knight Francis Knight is offline
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Default IPPR suggest "Greater South East" rail body

David Boothroyd wrote:

In article ,
"Rich Mallard" wrote:

A think tank comments:

http://www.ippr.org.uk/press/index.php?release=355

Interesting stuff, which superficially I like the sound of. It's about time
this notion that London should somehow be artificially divorced from its
south east context is challenged, and this helps do just that.


It's gone down like a lead balloon with the councils in north-west Kent,
south-east Essex, south Hertfordshire, etc.


If they were to apply this thinking also to bus services, we'd
return them towards what they were between 1933 and 1969, when
we had the Country Area of LT. Doubt we'd get the RTs and RFs
back though.


Cheers,
Francis K.

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