On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, General Von Clinkerhoffen wrote:

Aylesbury does still have good if bloody expensive rail connections with
Chiltern,

To London. Not so good to the north or Milton Keynes, right?

there are plans for an Aylesbury North station to be built along with a
big housing development,

Very true.

what we really need are links west to east, connecting us with Oxford,
MK, and Cambridge now that would be fantastic,

Milton Keynes, yes - i presume that's a reasonably big employment centre -
but i'm not sure about how much demand there is for trips to Oxford or
Cambridge. Still, if the line was there, it would have other uses!

with the planned expansion of the town with Mad Uncle Prescotts lets
cover the entire south east with homes idea, the amount of traffic is
going to go through the roof, parts of the town are already a pollution
hotspot! to have this rail link, along with a bypass would hopefully
sort out some of the chaos that we have now,

Where is the car traffic going?

In view of Mad Uncle Prescott's plans, which will surely lead to drastic
expansion of small towns and villages in the area, perhaps it would be a
good idea to bring the line continuing north from Aylesbury (and,
hopefully, Aylesbury North) up to standard, and use it to extend Aylesbury
commuter services to Waddesdon, Quainton, etc. That line already connects
to the (disused, i think) line to Milton Keynes, so commuter trains could
run there, too. If a curve the other way was built at that junction,
trains could also run to Bicester; with a connection to the existing
mainline there, this would be the alternate route to Birmingham. All
rather simpler than restoring the Quainton Road - Verney Junction route, i
think.

oh and don't get me started on Arriva busses (bunch of crooks).

Par for the course with bus companies.

tom

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