The money would be better spent on concreting over all of the railway lines, giving direct and easy routes into London, preferably without speed limits. Convert all of thr stations into free car parks and maybe at last motorists might get some value for all of the exhorbitant taxes we pay?
Am I still your Minister for Transport, TB?
Ron.
I hope not.
Cars aren't the solution to everything, and reducing their use in large urban areas is the way to go. Driving a car in London(or any other big city) is an expensive, slow, dirty, inefficient and wasteful thing to do. Any vehicle that isn't at least 50% full at the start of its journey should be disencouraged.
Yes I agree, and I would add that tarmacing over railways is an old, totally unrealistic, solution.
Throughout the UK passenger rail journeys for the year have
increased to 1.8 billion journeys. In the South East it has
increased to a DAILY passenger journey figure of 600,000. If all those passengers got into cars tomorrow, or at least two per car did, how would the roads, or covered railways, cope with an EXTRA 150,000 vehicles, with the majority going into London there and back,
per day or 450 million, based again on two people per car, road journeys
per year EXTRA on the roads going there and back?
In short, the most efficient method of the mass movement of people is by rail, and we should not forget the importance of railways for freight movements, and if they did not happen by that method, then tens of thousands of extra lorry movements would happen on our roads, adding to all the extra cars being there.
So, any argument to pave over our railway lines is a non-starter. Always was, always will be.