Hasmita Patel, issue 1124, says the Transport-Watch advert contains "more misrepresentation per column-inch than an Iraq dossier". If she, and others, believe that then they should report us to the Advertising Standards Authority. We would welcome any hearing there - confident that we would both vindicate all that we have said and, by proxy, demonstrate the scandal that the railway lobby is - a scandal that is perhaps the greatest civilian one in history. In any event, all that Railtrack's immensely expensive team could do in the face of the similar facts that we brought to the Inquiry into the West Coast Main Line Modernisation Programme was to bluster - see the Closing Statements accessible from our web site.
Meanwhile Andy Hamilton is so distressed by our advertisement that he wants to punish us with a railway to our very door. We protest - the punishment is too severe for it would bring our lives to a near standstill - illustrating, at a stroke, the paralysing inefficiency of rail compared with road transport. Just imagine what would happen if the motorway and trunk road networks were paved with railway lines.
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Hasmita Patel, issue 1124, says the Transport-Watch advert contains "more misrepresentation per column-inch than an Iraq dossier". We comment, Railtrack's immensely expensive team overturned none of the similar facts that we brought to the Inquiry into the West Coast Main Line Modernisation Programme. Instead it blustered - see the Closing Statements in our web site.
Meanwhile Andy Hamilton wants to punish us with a railway to our very door. We protest - the punishment is too severe for it would bring our lives to a near standstill. Just imagine what would happen if the motorway and trunk road networks were paved with railway lines.
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See the "Forensic demolition" by Adrian Lyons Director General of the Railway Forum.
See Complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority - the rebuttal
See Railfuture's "The Case for Rail"
