> Graeme Wall
greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >> In message <1hv8f4s.btkcw51r21tz6N%%%%%%%%steve%%%%@
malloc.co.uk>
>> %%%%steve%%%%@
malloc.co.uk (Stephen Firth) wrote:
>>
>>> Graeme Wall
greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> >>>> OK, get from junction 10 to junction 11.
>>>
>>> Morestead Road, Hazeley Road, Shawford Road, Otterbourne Road.
>>
>> Ah, the scenic route :-) I'll grant you it is east of the M3 for the most
>> part.
>
> You can stop for a nice coffee and a chat at Twyford.
>
>>>
>>> Now try the same journey by rail.
>>
>> It's just as feasible by rail now as it was before the motorway was
>> built.
>
> And the route I gave and indeed the motorway alternative is more
> feasible than the route ever was in the 1980s. It used to take about
> three hours just to get past Hockley lights.
Tell me about it, I commuted Reading-Southampton for 9 months (1977-78).
>
> Not that I think that the actual route was acceptable. If the
> Wickhamites hadn't had an unreasonably lagre influence with the
> government the route would have run around Twyford Down on the level.
> Still good to see an Old School Tie can result in the excess comsumption
> of fuel and resources to soothe the nerves of a few queer old deans.
Partly that and partly a local MP getting too full of himself and personally
setting out to prevent the tunnel version, which would actually have been
cheaper in the long term.
