http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/whatever-happened-to-the-road-lobby/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/whatever-happened-to-the-road-lobby/comment-page-1/#comment-79010 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:12:33 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=16322#comment-79010 That’s true as well. Passenger numbers bottomed out at the beginning of the 1980s, and have been rising ever since. It took another decade before either politicians or the railway industry itself recognised that this was a long-term trend rather than a temporary blip.

]]> http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/whatever-happened-to-the-road-lobby/comment-page-1/#comment-79009 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:52:07 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=16322#comment-79009 Increasing passenger numbers probably helped as well. It is hard to justify ripping it all up when people are using it more.

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