#TaviLink
Reinstate the Tavistock rail link...

#TaviLink
September 10, 2024 at 3:04 PM
The north Dartmoor rail link becomes ever more essential for Plymouth and south Devon...
#TaviLink #Okehampton #DartmoorLine #PlymouthUK #Dawlish #RiverExe

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Major project to replace banks to protect South West rail line
The line runs along the Exe Estuary and bosses fear water is eroding ground underneath the track.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Makes Plymouth/TaviLink look like a bargain...

"... Built at the behest of Natural England with “no evidence” that bats were at risk from the trains... “This shed, you’re not going to believe this, cost more than £100m.”"

#PlymouthUK #TavistockUK #DevonUK #HS2
Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says
Jon Thompson tells industry conference there was ‘no evidence’ that bats were at risk from the trains
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Unfortunately, unless you're a train geek, rail travellers to/from #SWEngland have been lumbered with diversions for at least 6 months.
Meanwhile, rail infrastructure investment in Devon & Cornwall go to the bottom of the list...
Yes... I am a rail geek too.
#HS2 #transit #TaviLink
December 27, 2024 at 4:30 PM
It's okay... TaviLink and Plymouth-Okehampton can wait...

Annual govt public transportation expenditure /per capita - 2022-2023
London: £1,272
South West: £388
#DevonUK #transit

www.statista.com/statistics/1...
UK transport spending per capita by region 2023 | Statista
In 2022/23, transport spending in London was 1,272 British pounds per capita, compared with just 361 pounds per head in the East Midlands, indicating a significant regional disparity in public spendin...
www.statista.com
September 2, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Travellers in the SW will have their London service interrupted and delayed for years and end up with even longer travel times to Paddington.
Meanwhile transit infrastructure in the SW continues to be neglected. But so long as London benefits...
#TaviLink #Dawlish #PlymouthOkehampton
December 31, 2024 at 1:55 PM