Reminder of BRTA Horsham public meeting

A final reminder that the public meeting of the British Regional Transport Association will be held in Horsham is this Saturday with speakers Tiffany Lynch – Director, TPL Transport Planning Ltd, followed by Q&A and Rob Whitehead – Southern Railway Community and Corporate Social Responsibility Work followed by Q&A.

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The event will be held at the Horsham Unitarian Church (Hall), Worthing Road and is free and open to all.

Please come and bring your friends and colleagues. By meeting and making common cause, we can do more and better.

The three principal missing rail links in the South East are:

1. Tunbridge Wells-Uckfield-Lewes (Tonbridge-Brighton) and

2. Guildford-Horsham-Shoreham (Reading/Heathrow-Brighton/South Coast 'not via London').

3. Polegate-Stone Cross for Ashford-Brighton direct, and vice versa, shaving 20 minutes off the end-to-end journey time and enabling more passenger and freight by rail too.

Eastbourne would still have local rail services, but this extra direct access, however located, would enable more Capital (London)-Airport (Gatwick) to Resort (Eastbourne) so nothing lost!

More roads and like A27 upgrades, just never stop, absorb huge sums and deliver congestion and land use parking demands to urban areas, when that land is needed for other things like conservation, farming, employment and housing for example. Are we getting the balances right? How do we make inevitable development sustainable unless we have the rail links restored as modern railway facilities which carry bulk people and goods?

This is the priority BRTA has and in reverse for example, Brighton/South Coast to Horsham and Guildford with associated links and also the new proposed Heathrow Southern link, if it has a west-north arm as well as south-west, would enable more operators to serve Heathrow and if we get our way to extend to the Chiltern Main Line and an extra arm for Reading.

Please join or donate to BRTA and help us as a volunteer with this on-going work. Please bring the agenda with you and cash for any sales.