NEWS: Breaking news! September 13, 2019
Cambridge MP urges Transport Secretary to commit to climate-friendly East West Rail and scrapping Expressway
Talking to the Cambridge Network, Daniel Zeichner MP said “There is a fear that the Expressway proposals are a twentieth century solution to a twenty-first century problem, and in a time of climate crisis and need for modal shift away from cars, major new road building should not be a Government priority.“
Cambridge Network reports that “Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner has written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps MP to ask for his assurances that East West Rail will be electrified, not diesel, and that it will be a public railway.” And to ask him to “scrap the controversial Expressway, in favour of road improvements to the existing network and encouraging “modal shift to public transport“.”
This is exactly what the NEG are campaigning for! Great to hear Daniel Zeichner talk such sense!
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