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£8 billion rail expansion plan announced in UK while Irelands plans lie in tatters.

  • 25-11-2010 10:22am
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    The UK government has announced plans for £8bn of investment in Britain's railways. It is buying about 2,000 new carriages to tackle overcrowding, electrifying some lines and pressing ahead with the Thameslink programme.

    Meanwhile across the water our own plans for the completion of transport 21 now lie in tatters with the cancellation of programmes, savage cut backs in services and a dated main line track layout remnant to the Victorian era.. :mad:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11834531


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  • #2
    r3nu4l
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    While it is a laudable announcement, according to BBC Radio 4, the last of the 2000 carriages won't be bought until 2019, also there is a two year delay on some projects.

    So while all of this is 'approved' at a time of great uncertainty and austerity, this does not mean the plans will go ahead. If things get any worse here (in England) then those plans can be wound back or the timelines extended.

    Part of the reason that this is going ahead is because rail fares have been rising year on year, way ahead of inflation and the service has been getting steadily worse (I should know I commuted from Cambridge to Liverpool Street for long enough :mad:). This makes it look to the commuter that the rail fare increases have been 'worth it'.


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