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Mustard wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: Mustard wrote: ...That's not the same thing as demand for new public transport routes. ... If you think about, there are very few parts of England and Wales (Scotland to a slightly lesser extent) that did not have rail coverage at the height of the 1920s usage, or similarly extensive bus coverage from the 1930s - 1960s. So any "new" public transport route is likely to simply be a permutation of an "old" one anyway (the white elephant of HS2 being an exception, obviously). Not sure what you're getting at with the new vs old routes thing? What I was trying to say was in reply to your point that there is no demand for "new" public transport routes, only demand for increased spend on existing corridors. My point was that there is a demand for "new" routes as well, but that they are in effect "old" routes really, because any "new" route now would be covering ground that once upon a time would have been well-served by the public transport network, before the advent of so much car usage. In order to really make people view car usage as a choice rather than a necessity, much of the old, lost network would need to be resuscitated, because otherwise in many places there really is no choice other than using a car at present, where once there was public transport. The population of rural towns and villages is much greater than it was in the heyday of public transport, so there are certainly potential users out there, but you have to make it look like a proper, practical alternative to using cars. Reply | with quote |  2nd October 2013ce 18:26 In reply to: Re: A303 to go into a tunnel eventually? (Mustard) |
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