Rail halt latest

John Fareham and John Abbott continue to campaign for a Bricknell rail halt adjacent to the railway footbridge.

We have set out the case for a rail halt – in particular the need for public transport between here and the city centre in the evenings and at weekends – to Network Rail, the Office of Rail and Road and to the local rail operators. Some of the objections we have been faced with in the past –such as figures plucked out of thin air purporting to represent the cost of building a rail halt or allegations that stopping to pick up a few passengers would ruin the punctuality of the whole service – were, in our view, nonsense and we have said so. The Council will soon be in need of revising its transport strategy and we both think it will be good if we can gain ground on this issue before that process begins.