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London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/7788 Written by Lee on Monday, 24th September 2007 A group representing 300 London businesses said it may be "tough'' to reach an agreement with the U.K. government over how to the Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/7852 Written by Lee on Thursday, 27th September 2007 London mayor Ken Livingstone has appealed for the "last few hundred million pounds" to complete the funding for the Crossrail transport project (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7014331.stm Speaking at the Labour conference in Bournemouth he said ministers were within 2% of putting in place the funding package for the Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/7971 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 3rd October 2007 John Kay argues that London deserves better than Crossrail (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/10/london_deserves_better_than_cr.html#more Quote : "London desperately needs better public transport but Crossrail is not the better public transport it needs. There is an improved Crossrail proposal called Superlink, but it might be better to scrap the whole scheme and build the long-envisaged Underground from Chelsea to Hackney or, better yet, to spend the money on more piecemeal improvements." Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/8034 Written by Lee on Friday, 5th October 2007 PM Gordon Brown has given the go ahead for CrossRail (links below.) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=739.msg2743#msg2743 http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/10/crossrail_at_long_last.html#more http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=319985&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7029201.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7029579.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030638.stm http://thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=18595041&folderPk=78031&pNodeId=133174 http://www.theresavilliers.co.uk/article/?id=295&PHPSESSID=a243b59bad522084838fa4569f45b5c1 Interesting quote from Peter Lawrence , president of Railfuture , who hails Crossrail as "a great step forward", but says limited track capacity means it may create "serious difficulties" for freight and other passenger services. Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/8053 Written by Industry Insider on Saturday, 6th October 2007 I'm pleased that this route has finally got the go-ahead. Gordon Brown's wish to announce it at the Labour Conference went a bit tits-up, and I find his quote "Crossrail will add Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/8141 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 10th October 2007 On 12 July 2007 the Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill announced its interim decisions on the petitions it had heard up to that date. This is the Government's response to those decisions (link below.) http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/crossrail/crossrailresp?view=Standard Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/8225 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 16th October 2007 Here is an article entitled "Crossrail - The Funding Facts" (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/10/crossrail_the_funding_facts.html#more Meanwhile , the long - standing Superlink group wants Crossrail to start in Reading and terminate at Stansted Airport (links below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7045379.stm http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/10/rail_bosses_call_for_reading_c.html#more Re: London Businesses Say Crossrail Funding Plan May Be Difficult - 4159/8243 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 17th October 2007 Travel fares will go up to pay for Crossrai l, London Mayor Ken Livingstone has said (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7046896.stm The increase will cover the cost of borrowing money to pay for the link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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