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The case for rail investment is built on a mountain of myths

Paul Withrington, TransportWatch, Northampton NN2
05 June 2009
Central London rail termini may be busy in the peak hours but go to one at lunch time and you experience cathedral-like peace says Paul Withrington
Central London rail termini may be busy in the peak hours but go to one at lunch time and you experience cathedral-like peace says Paul Withrington

 

I sympathise with John Siraut (Letters 8 May) when he says he reads my letters with a “mixture of agreement and bemusement”. The problem that John has may be the same I had when I first did the arithmetic; namely the difference between the railway myth and the reality is so large as to beggar belief.

For example, the railway lobby has established the belief that rail is overwhelmingly safe compared with road. The lobby has achieved that by statements such as: “Every day more...

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