HS2 Options

[Biker1]

...or make journeys more efficient.

Good point but how?
Build straight, electric, high speed railway lines??
Ban cars
Bigger planes
Mega bus ways
?

[NWNREADER]

Ban people working more than 2 miles from their workplace?

[motormad]

trains are very good for City to City travel. The problem is when the trying to get onward connections to suburbs or surrounding towns.

No they are not.

I went from Reading to Leeds by train once.
Got delayed by 3 hours and had to get an expensive taxi to my final destination.

Return journey got delayed by 8 hours (I sh*t you not) and ended up getting a shared taxi back from BIRMINGHAM to Thatcham

All trains do is take you from one train station to another.

[On the edge]

The Green Party do have a point! What is it with all this commuting? After all isn't Newbury supposed to be the 'communications Capital' of UK in a hi tech way? Having suffered the experience for periods of my life, I'm sure not even MM would 'enjoy' the joys driving on the M4 beyond Reading in the morning rush everyday!

[blackdog]

Newbury's great communications are making it a dormitory town for Reading and London. With all the new housing going up this will only get worse, after all there are no significant new employers coming to town, which would be difficult anyway with industrial areas becoming housing plots and offices being turned into flats.

[MontyPython]

No they are not.

I went from Reading to Leeds by train once.
Got delayed by 3 hours and had to get an expensive taxi to my final destination.

Return journey got delayed by 8 hours (I sh*t you not) and ended up getting a shared taxi back from BIRMINGHAM to Thatcham

All trains do is take you from one train station to another.

The Reading to Leeds Cross Country service has always been cr*p.

As for other services as I said City Centre to City Centre is fine, its the hanging around to get to the outskirts that makes it more attractive to go by car!

[On the edge]

Newbury's great communications are making it a dormitory town for Reading and London. With all the new housing going up this will only get worse, after all there are no significant new employers coming to town, which would be difficult anyway with industrial areas becoming housing plots and offices being turned into flats.

All part of the Master Plan, I thought you knew!

[blackdog]

All part of the Master Plan, I thought you knew!

I'd be impressed if I thought there was a plan - but all that happens is knee jerk responses to 'problems' of the moment. At the moment housing is the big issue so planning is imbalanced to encourage house building. It doesn't seem to have occured to them (govt) that creating new dormitory communities might result in a need for new transport infrastructure.

Instead we get wittering about home working and planning legislation to ensure houses have space to store pushbikes.

[On the edge]

I'd be impressed if I thought there was a plan - but all that happens is knee jerk responses to 'problems' of the moment. At the moment housing is the big issue so planning is imbalanced to encourage house building. It doesn't seem to have occured to them (govt) that creating new dormitory communities might result in a need for new transport infrastructure.

Instead we get wittering about home working and planning legislation to ensure houses have space to store pushbikes.

Yes, quite agree! It's ready, fire, aim planning. Just an aside that illustrates this. In the free Reading Chronicle they give out in Sainsburys, the Royal Berks Hospital Management are saying lack of parking isn't a problem. The real issue is trying to stop people coming to one big building for treatment......errr might that just be the result of you down grading local facilities to concentrate everything on one site? Forward planning!