Rail link is vital
It does seem to me that the train companies will be happy continuing to “divide and conquer” while more or less doing as they choose.
Understandably price, timetabling and journey times are the immediate priority for all those revenue providers/voters unfortunate enough to have to commute at peak times but the December snows also highlighted the dangerous and disruptive effect of a failure to provide the contracted service in adverse weather conditions.
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Hide AdOnly one MEP stepped forward to comment on this (local TV) and question why cheaper and effective technical fixes were not being deployed regarding the third rail system instead of an abortive £3 million experiment?
Although this situation has now receded it is actually key to the whole service.
It’s no good getting the other matters sorted if trains are not ice-proof and bits of track falling off (as happened recently) can cause chaos at random.
Now is the time to pursue these matters even more vigorously, not waiting until this part of the country is suffering another Groundhog Day winter during which East Sussex finds itself desperately cut off from essential supplies and resources.
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Hide AdThe local rail link is potentially vital in an area of relatively limited infrastructure and keeping it running should be the absolute priority.
Promises to “provide more information” (the usual response) aren’t much good if nothing is moving!
DAVE WALSH
Rotherfield Avenue
Bexhill-on-Sea