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Close down a railway and people will switch to cars

Edward Gibbins
19 July 2007
 

Mr Paul Withrington's interest in converting railways to roads for buses and coaches depends on all displaced rail passengers transferring to buses. Experience of closures of lines with lower than average rail speeds is that most people transfer immediately to car and, within months, so do the rest, when buses are withdrawn. Mr Withrington says he "can see no reason why they would transfer to cars". A 2004 RAC report gives the answer: motorists see rail as the best alternative to the...

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