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July 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Ray Massey
18:32 EST, 15 July 2012
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17:41 EST, 16 July 2012
Fares will soar to fund a £9.4billion makeover of Britain’s railways which was described yesterday by David Cameron as the ‘biggest modernisation since the Victorian era’.
Passengers rather than taxpayers will foot the bill for the improvements, ministers said yesterday.
The investment programme will include the much-anticipated full electrification of the Midland Main Line from St Pancras in London to Sheffield. It will be part of an ‘electric spine’ – running from Yorkshire and the West Midlands to South Coast ports – that aims to bridge the North-South gap through improved transport links.
David Cameron has said he is even more committed to the Coalition than when it was first formed. The pair made the first in a series of announcements which will kickstart the flatlining economy
Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg with engineers Gary Matthews, left, and Michael Bailey at the Soho depot in Smethwick. They announced a £9.4billion package of rail projects
The five-year strategy, which will run from 2014 to 2019, is designed to help boost the flagging economy as well as revitalising the railways.
It was unveiled yesterday by the Prime Minister and his Deputy Nick Clegg at a rail freight depot in Birmingham.
Mr Cameron said: ‘In what is the biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian era, this investment will mean faster journeys, more seats, better access to stations, greater freight links and a truly world-class rail network.’
Many of the schemes, totalling £4.2billion, announced yesterday involve the electrification of rail lines so diesel trains can be replaced.
As well as being faster, electric trains are said to be more efficient and environmentally friendly.
The ‘electric spine’ comprises an £800million electrification and upgrade from Sheffield to Bedford – completing the electrification of the Midland Main Line – and electrification of the lines from Nuneaton and Bedford to Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke and Southampton.
Electrification: The Midland Main Line between Sheffield and Bedford will receive an £800m upgrade
There will be £240million of improvements along the East Coast Main Line from the North East to London.
The railway will be electrified beyond Cardiff to Swansea, completing the full electrification of the Great Western Main Line out of London Paddington at a total cost of more than £600million. The Welsh Valley lines, including Ebbw Vale, Maesteg and the Vale of Glamorgan, will also be electrified.
No money tree: Justine Greening admitted that passengers would have to pay for the works
The Northern Hub cluster of rail enhancements will be completed with £322million of outstanding track and capacity upgrades around Manchester and Liverpool.
Among the other schemes in the £4.2million investment announced yesterday is a £500million rail link between the Great Western Main Line and Heathrow airport.
The remaining £5.2billion of the £9.4billion is for projects to which the Government has already committed. These include completion of the Crossrail and Thameslink schemes, and electrification between London and Cardiff, Manchester to Liverpool and Preston and across the Pennines.
Critics suggested the ‘electric spine’, which Mr Clegg has campaigned for as MP for Sheffield Hallam, was an attempt to save his seat in the next election. And questions were immediately raised over who would bear the brunt of the costs. Fares are already due to rise by 3 per cent above inflation in January 2013 and 2014.
Transport Secretary Justine Greening said ‘there is no money tree’ and admitted that ‘for the time being, passengers will have to pay’.
Her admission led to a string of attacks. Stephen Joseph, chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport, said the Government was ‘pricing people off the railways’.
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, said: ‘Motorists do not face higher taxes when new roads are built and rail passengers should not face even higher fares when new lines are built.’
Rail experts were dismissive of Mr Cameron’s assertion that the package was ‘the biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian era’.
They said that when inflation is taken into account, the 1955 Modernisation and Re-equipment Plan cost about twice as much.
Christian Wolmar, author of Fire and Steam, which charts the early rise of the railways, said: ‘I don’t really think it’s a totally credible claim. In the mid-1950s the Conservatives implemented their modernisation plan, which marked the death-knell for steam trains which were replaced with diesel locomotives.
‘That cost £1.24billion – or close to £22billion in today’s money.’
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And so why couldn’t 2 billion be put aside for elderly care. Instead the subject is dropped and won;t come up until election year. DISGUSTING
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I dont want to live on this planet anymore!!! Who spends billions on trains…. Im 22 and i think i speak for everyone when i say Education and health are the two most important things in our lives..
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The people of the UK have had enough of 33 years of the same policies of privatisation and market forces. If the privatised services and companies were renationalised without compensation to shareholders who have benefitted from massive public subsidies then all renationalised services could be provided FREE to all customers in UK. FREE at NO cost to customers to use gas, water, electricity, telephone services (mobile/phone/broadband), UK public transport on trains, trams, bus, ferries, domestic flights. All education including university education and apprenticeships FREE to all students in the UK with grants not loans. Good quality NHS services with full access to natural healthcare providers and treatments and LOW COST high quality safe council housing for all who need it (restart quality council house building programme). Instead of wealth ALWAYS going upwards let the people have better quality of life.The UK could PAY people to use gas and electricity (300 years worth of coal).
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Living in La La land otherwise known as No 10
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That smug face I want to smack!
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So if we drive we get fined because we are most probably in a wrong lane!! If we get the train we get penalised by upping the train fares!! Cycling we get abuse from either car users or pedestrians or knocked down!! Flying we get charged for leg room, breathing etc etc!!
Thank you government (past and present) for replacing ‘Great Britain with ‘Rip Of Britain’.
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Cameron and Clegg must be the only two idiots committed to the coalition.
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What is it about my Bill and Ben comment is stopping it getting posted – at least tell me!
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Why is it taking over an hour to get comments posted?
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Electrifying the railway to Sheffield and who is a Sheffield MP why the bold Cleggy of course. This just smells of hypocrisy and political humbug a bigger pair of Loons would be hard to find.
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