Comment

Representation ID: 10056

Received: 28/07/2022

Respondent: Mr Richard Owen

• The proposed East West Rail line that you have fully supported, on a route through the centre of Bedford and then out through the unspoiled Bedfordshire villages and countryside, is the wrong choice. The Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, has said that Stages 2 and 3 should be cancelled. This is, in my opinion, the right call.

• Bedford Borough state that they are working towards a carbon neutral borough, incompatible with the EWR railway line mentioned above.

• The proposed site of the new Wixams station should be suspended until the EWR situation is clear, at the risk of the station being in a sub optimal position