Making the case to reopen the #NorthernRoute from Plymouth to Exeter via Tavistock and Okehampton
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Northern Route Working Group retweeted
Always a pleasure chatting to @ChurchfieldJE on @BBCCornwall this morning. Apologies for not putting my teeth in properly this morning - the railway section starts at 2hrs 8mins in, starting with @networkrailwest and then me. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h52n…
Northern Route Working Group retweeted
Given that this route used to exist, and the big picture includes the need for:
* better/more resilient infrastructure
* improving connections to, from & within the South West & Dartmoor
* #LevellingUp
making the case 'compelling' is surely do-able!
northernrouteworkinggroup.wo… – at Sevenoaks, South East
The latest @Modern_Railways has an article by @AndyRoden1 on the TORS proposals to reopen Exeter-Okehampton-Tavistock-Plymouth. A decade after #Dawlish, we think the proposals are worthy of detailed investigation to establish once and for all whether there's a case.
Northern Route Working Group retweeted
Good show from @AnneMarieMorris here. The @SouthWestRRP is the single most important rail priority for the SW. Money was no object in 2014, remember, and the plan - which runs into the 2070s - still ain't funded despite excellent work by NR. DfT, exdigitate, please.
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Northern Route Working Group retweeted
A great paper here from @greengauge21 on transport and adaptation to climate change. Note the difference between 'resilience' and 'adaptation'. De-silo transport thinking and above all, plan for the long-term. In the SW, #NorthernRoute/full #DartmoorLine are critical.
Transport is the problem sector for carbon emissions -it's where they remain stubbornly high, and shoring up ageing infrastructure is expensive. We ask for policy coherence, in place of silo thinking in transport, see latest: bit.ly/3YtlbfO #rail @JSimpsonjourno
We'll have it done before long, we're sure. Vital though that @SouthWestRRP is fully funded. A major programme from Teignmouth to Exeter running into the 2070s, #NorthernRoute cd unlock longer blockades to speed it up massively and save £££. Both projects must happen.
Northern Route Working Group retweeted
Our new year message is that we need to integrate bus and rail services across the whole country - see our first blog of the year: Okehampton's new multi-modal interchange greengauge21.net/okehamptons… @PlymouthHerald @WMNNews
It's the 60th anniversary of The Reshaping of British Railways in March. We're hoping to get our revised proposals for this reinstatement out to mark that day. It seems appropriate.