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.
Shortened version
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.
Transport-Watch
