Latest Government rail proposals for the region are utterly underwhelming - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Ian Richardson, Railway Street, Beverley.
As a regular rail user across our region, I find the latest proposals to develop rail across the North utterly underwhelming.
Yes, electrification between many of our major cities will make journeys a little faster and far greener; and yes, Bradford needs a new through station.
It's only the existing major routes that will be attracting all the major investment. This is socially disastrous for our region, widening the gap between a few booming cities like Leeds or York, yet offering nothing to forgotten towns and villages across the region.
How much better and really exciting it would be to see towns like Wetherby, Otley, Pocklington, Ripon and Hornsea get their lost railways back.
That would take real ambition for our region and a real sharing of resources; it's tragic that once again the haves get more and the have nots get nothing.