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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-40665659
Joking aside (Cardiff get everything, Jacks would raid the meter, etc)
this is a bloody stupid, shortsighted decision.
Must admit I don't understand what the impact of electrification is. Does it mean trains being all electric like the tube?
Every slight like this is another vote for Plaid.
I just looked it up
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/our-ra...ectrification/
Does this mean no valley lines electrification either? Or was that already off the cards, as you'd have thought that would have the bigger impact than just doing the mainline as far as Cardiff
Thicko question - Does it mean that if you're travelling from London to Swansea that you'll have to change trains at Cardiff?
Haven't they already built the depot for the electric trains adjacent to Swansea station?
Wales didn't vote Tory so doesn't get badly needed infrastructure.
That's the way, at this moment I shall say UK because it's probably not just one party who looks at it this way, UK politics works.
Meanwhile in India they launched a solar panel train. UK needs to look to a more greener innovative solution for public transport, countries a joke ffs!
never mind that bobh cardiff parkway is coming
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-s...wales-40669006
10 years too late but still....
It was never going to happen, west of Cardiff is viewed as farming land or somewhere to go on holiday in London. Let's be honest, Swansea has very little going for it in many ways particularly business.
Monorail.
Cardiff does get everything yes. But a stronger, better connected Swansea is better for Cardiff.
And poor transport links will make it more and more that way, let alone further along the track again.
Eventually, if 'we' are not careful 'we all' may up living towards the centre of the country, with absolutely no feck given about the more 'remote' areas !
Except for occasional holidays, where the visitor might also note the fact that the places are run down and have no amenities, no surgeries, no hospitals, poor transport, abandoned areas and un-repaired roads, unmotivated locals dealing with demanding customers for 6 quid an hour for a few hours a week .. etc etc
And thus never go again! And warn others off. Thus compounding the issue.
It could happen. It already is beginning to.
On a trial run today
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According to the Tory government, an electrified railway line (HS2), driven despite massive opposition through housing estates, open countryside and ecological habitats, is ESSENTIAL for the economic development of northern England.
According to Chris Grayling, transport minister, the people of south and west Wales are better off with diesels, and without all that tiresome fuss and bother of putting up steel gantries and wires along existing tracks.
According to a senior Tory on the Bridgend County Borough Council, electrification would be "nice" but not "essential".
So let's all be quite clear, the Tory view is that the north is an economic Power-house, while Wales is some sort of second class Sh*te-house.