Surprise, surprise! Steve Webb has hitched his wagon (please excuse the pun) to the Greater Bristol Metro campaign by cosying-up in a cross-party alliance with 19 MPs from around the South West, including Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti and Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore. The Gazette trumpets his support for a new hourly service from Severn Beach to Bath Spa and from Portishead to Severn Beach and Temple Meads from 2013. Apparently he welcomes calls on the Department for Transport to increase services for commuters in Yate and Severn Beach, including half-hourly connections for Yate by extending Weston-super-Mare to Bristol Parkway services with a new turn-back facility.
Nothing for Thornbury then; not even as part of some longer-term vision for rail transport in the region? Not unless a carefully worded afterthought is intended to offer us hope:-
"I will continue to press the Department for Transport to look hard at upgrading the whole rail system around the Bristol and South Gloucestershire area."Dream on Thornbury!
I'm beginning to wonder whether strategic thinking is somehow incompatible with the Lib-Dem mentality!
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