Alan Quick wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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Mrs Redboots wrote:

Dave Arquati wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Apr 2005:



Interestingly, it also says that DEFRA have commissioned a studies (not
that that means anything useful) into the East-West rail link between
Oxford and Cambridge via Bletchley and Bedford, as part of an
investigation into supporting the new Milton Keynes & South Midlands
housing plans around Milton Keynes.


Would this be the same Oxford-Cambridge rail link via Bedford that was
dug up 40-something years ago?

Yup. They've decided they need it again.

Or it could be a counter to the road lobby "outer M25"
Consisting A34, part dualled A43.A421,A428,A14

Hopefully TPTB will recognise that an "outer M25" will create traffic
problems even worse than the current M25 does - if the current M25
creates widely distributed trips that are all but impossible to cater
for with public transport, then an outer M25 will be that much worse.

Unfortunately, some of the "outer M25" road schemes may slip in as
infrastructure to support the new housing planned in MK or the M11 corridor.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London