Urgent: East West Rail Petition
Cambridge Approaches and BFARe have come together to start this petition to “Pause plans for Oxford-Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review”. It has had over 2000 signatures in its first 48 hours, but due to the snap general election it will be terminated at 00:01 on 30th May 2024. So we have until next Wednesday to send a message to the next government that we are not happy with the proposals for East West Rail. Please sign the petition and ask your friends and family to do so as well.
It’s far from clear that the next government will back the project but a couple of things are clear. (1) The current rail minister Huw Merriman has announced that he will not be standing at the next election and (2) David Hughes is to replace Beth West as CEO of EWRCo. He was until recently he was at the DfT as Director General responsible for Rail Infrastructure until September last year, so we don’t expect too much change there.
Terry Baker
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We need a full and fair enquiry to determine whether there is any real reason to continue with this wasteful, environmentally catastrophic proposal
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