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Re: Dr Beeching

Anthony Zachary <anthony@nospam.united-general.demon.co.uk> wrote in
article <3694c84c.17954730@news.demon.co.uk>...
> What makes me really sad as a resident of inner London, and therefore
> used to pollution, is that so much of it could have been avoided if
> Governments over the years had not been fascinated with the car. We
> had a great railway network, which had already been built and paid
> for. Now we need to build large parts of it again. Duh.

The real mistake IMO was building housing on the closed lines. The
alignments should have been kept clear or had cheap warehouses and low-rise
industrial properties built on them, so that they could easily be cleared
again.

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