High speed hope Stoke on Trent

It goes to show how labour are so dishonest  when they take the bnp ideas back in febuary i filmed Michael coleman in meir you can look it up for yourselfs on stoke patriot under the heading meir needs a railway station now Michael coleman said in the video that it would increase employability and another factor is that it would bring in trade now a couple of nights back i spotted a article in the local sentinel headed high speed hope for local economy i have attached  that article for you to have a look at and the video of Michael Coleman

Meir Needs A Railway Station!

The proposed high speed rail link between London and Birmingham is a great idea - but there is an even better idea of how to use the £18billion that the project would cost. We could re-open hundreds of 'train stops' on railway lines that run into city centres, this would enable folk to access shops by rail thereby taking the pressure of our roads. Also, if these 'stops' were located in economically deprived areas it could become a key factor in the regeneration of that local economy. I'm thinking particularly here about people without cars (as petrol prices increase there will be millions of Britons who wont be able to afford car transportation) who's job prospects would be greatly improved if they had access to train travel.

And there is the real point, we have 10,000 businessmen who would benefit from the high speed rail project each year, but there are millions of Britons who effectively have extremely limited access to the rail network.

I think it would be wiser and fairer if the £18billion were used to supply more carriages on trains, extend short platforms and (in Meir's case) re-establish 'train stops' in urban areas that are painfully under resourced in terms of access to the rail network!

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