Network Rail chooses Dawlish alternative route

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Network Rail chooses Dawlish alternative route

Is it April 1st today? People only care about Cornwall as a tourist spot - and that means road links. Surely no-one will waste a penny on this nonsense?

[shaunbhoy]

The cheapest and easiest solution is to just repair the line via Dawlish and add extra protection from the sea erosion.
And being cheapest and easiest, that is what will in all probability happen.
Lovely little jaunt into exeter along that line from Teignmouth too, and cheap as chips at £4 for a day return. Plonks you off in Exeter a 5-minute walk from a giant Wetherspoons overflowing with students too. Lovely!!

[KentPhilip]

Oh but they will.

When they are faced with nostalgic memories of holidays past, people forget that although the price of road is roughly the same as rail, this is a result of the fact of a huge cost differential being masked by taxes and subsidies - rail travel receives huge subsidies, but road pays large taxes.

Roads are inherently much cheaper than rail.

[d000hg]

The cheapest and easiest solution is to just repair the line via Dawlish and add extra protection from the sea erosion.

I hope so, it's beautiful.

BP what is your beef with trains? SAying "only tourism" is ridiculous because tourism is one of the big uses of trains!

[DodgyAgent]

I hope so, it's beautiful.

BP what is your beef with trains? SAying "only tourism" is ridiculous because tourism is one of the big uses of trains!

Who goes to the South West on business apart from a care home facilities manager?

[vwdan]

Who goes to the South West on business apart from a care home facilities manager?

Anyone doing business in the South West I imagine.

[Doggy Styles]

Who goes to the South West on business apart from a care home facilities manager?

I'm sure there's more than you think. The Forces. Tourism businesses. Farming. Smugglers. Residents who travel out of the south-west to work. Shaunbhoy.

[bobspud]

Who goes to the South West on business apart from a care home facilities manager?

Thats half the problem. Given that there is a big ******* fibre that runs up a beach from the US then heads off to London and passes many very nice places on the way, Cornwall could be a centre of excellence for Low environmental impact home working. But instead everyone looks at the place as somewhere that you go to eat fish and chips….

Given a choice of living in Fowey and working from Home using decent collaboration tools or sitting in a crap office in Old street there is no competition. Why are we not asking the EU to bail out the Rail line? god knows what other infrastructure we have paid towards for Jonny foreigner

[SimonMac]

[AtW]

The cheapest and easiest solution is to just repair the line via Dawlish and add extra protection from the sea erosion.

It's not the sea erosion that dun it ...