This is a tale of three major roads, combined cost about £7 billion. In the late 2010s it seemed likely that they would all be built. Yet by 2024 all three of them, the M4 bypass at Newport in Wales, the A303 tunnel under Stonehenge, and the Oxford to Cambridge ‘Expressway’, had been cancelled. The… Continue reading
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Could private cash boost new Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Line?
Delays in completing East-West Rail, linking Cambridge to Oxford, are holding up the development of a new British Silicon Valley, slowing the growth of research and development facilities in life sciences and artificial intelligence both in the two cities and the villages and towns between them. There its no direct rail link between the two places, and the road connection is diabolical. —– Most… Continue reading →