High Speed Rail Link Petition

[Doggy Styles]

I was being cruel to the residents of Aston Clinton (above). The residents of that village in Berkshire campaigned for decades for a bypass because of the A41 passing through causing so many deaths.

The bypass was held up by the various rich landowners in that part of the world, some of whom did not want the ugly new road, and others who sought the compensation from the government and wanted it on their land, despite that being an inappropriate route.

Those arguments held up the upgrading of that entire stretch of the A41 from the M25 to something like Aylesbury.

IIRC it was 1936 when the first plan was proposed for that bypass.


To give an idea of the mentality in that area, look at Tring. It is a village with a railway station miles from the houses. When the Grand Union Canal as proposed, the residents of Tring refused to have "that stinking ditch" anywhere near them, so the canal bypasses Tring. Hence Tring remains a village whilst its neighbours benefited from the increased trade and wealth the canal brought.

When the railways came, they caused so much grief the railway company built them a station nowhere near them out of spite!

But then, given how the Rothschilds are traditionally the dominant landowners in the area, is it any surprise they can hold the country to ransom and deny the nation services that it needs?

1. Aston Clinton isn't in Berkshire.

2. Tring is a town of 12,000 people.

3. If HMG are hoping freight will use this line instead of the road, lots of new link roads to its stations at either end will also have to be built, and total times will still be slower than driving lorries down the M40.

4. When does all this stop? If we stopped importing people we could see an end to the need for perpetual building.