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Gerrards Cross update 5/7/05
"Adrian Auer-Hudson" wrote:
Actually Tony, I am from Aylesbury. And I do not think the politicians here in the US are above criticism. When it comes to railroads, the word clueless comes to mind. The word 'system' would be hard to apply to most of the passenger railroads in the United States. Nevertheless having grown up near a town (Aylesbury) with fine rail links both north and south. Said routes having the potential for development into a fine network, you will understand my disappointment at the leftovers that Aylesbury has for it rail link today. This is particularly strange in so far as Aylesbury was part of an area that was expected to see, and did see, expanded housing and employment as companies and individual were encouraged to relocate away from London in the 1960s and 1970s. Aylesbury never did gain a motorway connection, for which I am grateful. However, it lost a fine mainline to the north. It lost the fast service to London. It lost its link to the WCML at Cheddington and all local service going north. All tat remains are the stopping DMU services to London. I really wonder if you are talking about the Aylesbury I know, because that is where I live. Aylesbury has superb rail links to London, with fast, modern, clean trains offering a punctual and reliable service. There are excellent connections into the London Underground system, with whose services the Aylesbury service of Chiltern Railways is well coordinated. There are two routes to London, one via Amersham and the other via High Wycombe. The latter route offers an easy interchange at Princes Risborough with express trains to Banbury, Leamington Spa and Birmingham, which have recently doubled in frequency. Presumably you would like the little-used rural lines that used to radiate from Aylesbury to be kept open with large government subsidy, rather than spending the money on services that people actually want to use, in very large numbers. Chiltern Railways is a great success, and enjoys strong local support. Please don't knock it. I think your criticism of Aylesbury's excellent rail services is wholly misplaced, being based on old fashioned sentiment rather than common sense rooted in reality. |
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