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item0031C 614, 615 614 13 January 2003 Network De-Railed I have been advising the Government for
years (see January 2002)
to do a
Beeching on the rail network. For those who wish to see, it
is clear that we are pouring good I travel by rail several times every week - I therefore live with the dangerous decline of the service. While the inter-City should be consolidated, and major urban networks decisively renewed, nothing else should be retained. And Inter-City travellers and commuters should be given notice of a 50% fare-increase in 2005, to give them time to adjust their patterns. The rest of the network should be closed down and the tracks converted to dedicated coach-ways, or even pedestrian and cycle-ways: indeed, the coachways could become toll-roads, generating income for Network Rail. And our principal travel network would then be based on two modern technologies - coach-travel, and air-travel. Both technologies need major investment - but they look to the future, not the past.
Do you have current experience of rail travel? What do you think? Drop me a line
615 3 February 2003 An end to Old America I am an optimist. I believe that the "Iraq Incident" will, whatever happens, mark the death-throes of Old America - the business-corrupted State of Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the Bushes. If America attacks Iraq, it will be an assault upon the whole concept of a coherent world order. And the revulsion will be profound, universal. But
even if Saddam blinks, concedes his position and avoids a full war,
world opinion will remain outraged by the crude, strutting thuggery of
George Dubya, his I don't think it can, or will. The corporate sector now has more to gain from peace than from war. I predict that the ways of Old America will be derided internationally and left behind, just as surely as British imperialism was rejected, by the tide of history. Whatever happens in Iraq, world opinion will rally behind the Democrats in America. Events could move quite quickly. There might even be a regime change in Washington by November 2004.
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