Tuesday 4 April 2023

Beeching unfairly gets blamed when the authorities, in subsequent decades, are the guilty party

The very people who are giving us High Scam 2 are the very people who, with their predecessors, stupidly obliterated about one-third of the national railway network when Richard Beeching sensibly closed them.  The man did not want their complete wipeout.

Seven Dudley borough railway lines have been built on or, are impossible to bring back for trains or trams.  About 100 Kms destroyed in the West Midlands.  Complete idiocy.

All this spending for totally unnecessary destruction means this:

ME: The more we spend, the more we burn fossil fuels, it seems to me.  Have I got this right, Jonathon? SELF, 16 February 2019
PORRITT'S reply: “More or less right! … ” 
"Just one caveat: as we decarbonise our grid, we’ll obviously be burning rather less of the reserves of remaining fossil fuels, and relying more on green electrons. But the rule of thumb still holds for the time being!"  Sir Jonathon Porritt 17 Feb 2019

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