Rail
We need a mayor who stands up for rail users. Bedford has had its train
services cut. More than half the trains to Leicester have been cut.
The 5.30pm fast train from London has been cut. I would fight hard to
get them restored. I will fight hard for a good rail link to Milton
Keynes and Oxford, too.
Changes need to be made to the station, but the plans to put all the
car parking and also park and ride bus stops on the Queen's Park side
of the railway were a recipe for trouble. It is a good idea to have
a station entrance from Ford End Road/Midland Road, but it shouldn't
be the only entrance or car park. A second entrance to the station just
about where it is at the moment would help reduce congestion. Putting
an entrance to the main car park on Bromham Road, right next to the
bridge, would also reduce traffic jams on Ashburnham Road, if there
was also a decent sized station car park with an entrance near the Midland
Road/Ashburnham Road roundabout.
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