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Topic: Hello (Read 2725 times)
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David Preston
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Hello
« on: September 28, 2005, 03:15:06 PM » |
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Hello folks,
I attended the first meeting last week and is a regular rail user. I commute daily from Chippenham to London Paddington and then onto Greenwich by tube. So I can vouch for the expensive rail costs! I have also used in the past services to Bath, Swindon and Clifton via Bristol Temple Meads and the Severn Beach line.
At a time when fuel costs are increasing and the traffic on our roads is getting crowed, its time rail has a resurgance. I am not sure this campaign will get much as the Dft is proposing a lot of cuts, but I live in hope.
keep up the good work,
David
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Graham Ellis
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Re: Hello
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2005, 08:50:16 AM » |
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Thanks, David. For sure, we're going to need some luck but then at times you can make your own luck, by ensuring you're in the right place and talking to the right people at the right time. Also giving folks who made decision "x" a route to switching to alternative "y" without having to do a U turn. We're helped by the fact that the bid request must have been based on figures for 2003 - 2004 or earlier, which is before ticket sales to / from Melksham jumped by 35% in 2004 - 2005, for example. And we're helped by the fact that there's scope in the process for later fine tuning as I understand it (and, no, I don't understand it fully).
I'm gooing to make a few comments about parking / riding from Chippenham .... but I'll do that in a separate thread as it's of much more general interest; some good and interesting points have been pointed out!
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