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The combined authority is discussing EW Rail today - response to public consultation, that EWR say is going to take place before the end of the year. Says: ‘Full electrification of the line from the outset is essential’ (1)
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Replying to @no_expressway @RachelReevesMP @JenWilliams_FT @eastwestrail
Railway executives have no entitlement to public money. East West Rail had no demonstrated business case and should have been cut years ago.
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Replying to @ncedigital @eastwestrail
@eastwestrail is a housing project to enrich developers with an expensive railway PR sideline. 95% of its houses will be for car drivers not EWR passengers. It's capital cost per commuter is 60 times that of CrossRail. It will be the most subsidised railway in UK by %. #StopTheArc
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Replying to @RachelReevesMP
We are waiting on your review on @eastwestrail with its poorly planned routes and diesel trains .
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Please share and sign our joint petition with @BFARE2 to pause #eastwestrail for a full, open and independent review. So many reasons. No business case strategic or otherwise, project is a shambles, environmental damage, damage to people's lives... petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Petition: Pause plans for Oxford-Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review

Petition: Pause plans for Oxford-Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review

We do not want the Oxford-Cambridge rail link as described in the East West Rail Company's Route Update Announcement and subsequent refinements. We call for these plans to be paused and for a full,...

petition.parliament.uk
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DLUHC confirm that do hold an economic study (perhaps from Cambridge Econometrics) justifying their plans to quadruple the size of Cambridge. But they think it's not in the public interest to see it. I respectfully disagree, we actually live here. What do you think?
Image from Cambridge Approaches (@CambApproaches)
Image from Cambridge Approaches (@CambApproaches)
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There is an aggressive local plan to support jobs growth in Cambridge. DfT’s EWR attempts to provide more capacity to address this already solved problem and does so inefficiently. Why connect Cambourne to Cambridge for £16million per passenger?
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cambridgeapproaches.org/tran… We attended the Transport Select Committee hammering East West Rail yesterday. Here are some reflections. Bad news for the government EWR crew. Were they trying to bury it by holding it on budget day?
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Here is an investment opportunity. Cost: £8billion upfront. Annual operating loss £60million. Annual cost of capital at 5% £400million. No takers? That’s fine, you don’t have a choice. It’s East West Rail. Wider economic benefits? None demonstrated so far.
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Cambridge Approaches and BFARe give their response to the NAO investigation of #EastWestRail. cambridgeapproaches.org/wp-c…
Image from Cambridge Approaches (@CambApproaches)
Image from Cambridge Approaches (@CambApproaches)
Image from Cambridge Approaches (@CambApproaches)
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New blog post from our friends @CambApproaches : cambridgeapproaches.org/will…
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STARC Trustee William Harrold will be on @BBCCambridgeRBX at 7.35 tomorrow. They are talking about the @NAOorguk National Audit Office investigation into @eastwestrail. We understand that EWR have refused to comment. #StopTheArc #Cambridgeshire #Bedfordshire @BFARE2
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Cambridge News poll says 84% of people are against EWR Proposals cambridge-news.co.uk/news/lo…
CambridgeshireLive readers give their verdict on East West Rail plans

CambridgeshireLive readers give their verdict on East West Rail plans

The results were overwhelmingly in favour of one side

cambridge-news.co.uk
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Replying to @pippaheylings @SCLibDems @libdemdaisy @LibDems @ALDC
What is your position on EWR for Sth Cambs? £8billion EWR through Sth Cambs for an est 2000 commuters per day, no stations for locals to use, miles and miles of massive 75m x 11m embankments, destruction of food producing farmland, is wrong and not a win for any one. #Scrapit2!
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Elected representatives of over 200,000 local people signed a Declaration rejecting the proposals for East West Rail To Cambridge. cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Opposition unites over East West Rail Cambridge section

Opposition unites over East West Rail Cambridge section

Hundreds of residents have signed the declaration

cambridgeindependent.co.uk
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Replying to @LibDems @pippaheylings
And what is your position on East West Rail in Sth Cambs? £8billion EWR through Sth Cambs for an est 2000 commuters per day, no stations for locals to use, miles and miles of massive 75m x 11m embankments, destruction of food producing farmland, wrong and not a win for any one
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Replying to @Mark_J_Harper
And what new of East West Rail in Sth Cambs? £8billion EWR smashing through sth cambs for an est 2000 commuters per day, no stations for locals to use, miles and miles of massive 75m x 11m embankments, destruction of food producing famrland, is wrong and not a win for any one
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Implications for East West Rail? Is government support secure for delivering the scheme to Cambridge - or could the political optics of continuing with EWR, while cutting northern section of HS2, give ministers second thoughts?
Mark Williamson (@markrwilliamson) profile pictureMark Williamson@markrwilliamson3 Oct 2023
HS2 West Midlands-Manchester line to be scrapped - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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For all the train spotters & HS2 supporters commenting on our re tweets please read about our campaign to highlight why @eastwestrail is the wrong route for Bedford to Cambridge: bfare.org.uk/wp-content/uplo…
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Replying to @MENnewsdesk @MayorofGM
Address this in the media @BBCNews @BBCNewsnight @BBCLookEast @BBC3CR @JeremyVineOn5 @itvanglia @Channel4News
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