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In message <1al*fKzQz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 16:30:29 on Sun, 
28 Jul 2024, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> remarked:
>Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>> In message <1al*s0yQz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 13:06:33 on Sun,
>> 28 Jul 2024, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> remarked:
>> >Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> wrote:
>> >> Think it's East-West Rail. Lots of nimby posters in the villages to the
>> >> south west.
>> >
>> >I wonder whether the government will withdraw funding, and then there won't
>> >be anything to NIMBY about?
>>
>> I can't keep up, but I thought it had long been a privately-funded
>> project. But if by a private company owned by the DfT, then we have
>> smoke and mirrors again.
>
>"The East West Railway Company is a non-departmental public arm’s length
>body set up by the government to accelerate the East West Rail project – a
>new rail link between Cambridge and Oxford.
>
>EWRC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the
>Department for Transport."
>
>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/east-west-railway-company
>
>so basically it's similar to Network Rail, but the DfT wanted somebody other
>than NR to run the project.  Not sure how much private finance is involved.

They keep fiddling with the route, which appears to be to make it pass 
the most new housing developments, thus surely (don't call me...) ought 
to warrant a contribution from the housing developers?
-- 
Roland Perry

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                Re: It's jolly quiet around here The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-29 18:22 +0100
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