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Update May 2008
| As a local group vows to fight these plans along side
local residents the DRD has confirmed to the Community Telegraph that
the work on the picturesque greenway was undertaken "in the full
knowledge that the line would in the future be used for rapid
transport". "We took a decision that walkers and cyclists
should benefit from the space in the meantime and that we could build an
interim pathway that people could enjoy whilst the rapid transport
proposals were being developed". Our View: These comments expose the department to the allegation that there is already a predetermined bias in favour of using this route or implementing this plan regardless of public consultation. Furthermore, as the department is claiming through its spokesperson that they knew the nature route was an interim measure there was, at the very least a moral duty on them to inform the communities affected and the workers involved in its original construction. The DRD indicates that they decided to develop this disused line at a cost approaching £1 million pounds in the full knowledge that the route would not survive their rapid transport policy and thus knowing the money would in fact be wasted. It is clear that the persons who took the decision to squander public money in this way, in the full knowledge of future plans which whilst known to them were unknown to the majority of our community, should be surcharged the full cost of this waste. |
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