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Representation ID: 19416

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: Campaign for Better Transport

In 13.2 an assertion is made that 'Rother generally is disadvantaged, at least in economic terms, by the journey time involved in travelling to London/Brighton/Ashford and the South East.' There is no evidence to support this.

The negative view of infrastructure - often characterised in terms of, for example, 'long journey times to London', ignores geography. Comparisons are often made with Brighton and its 'under one hour' train journey times to London. This is largely irrelevant: Brighton is considerably closer to London than Bexhill/Hastings, and unlike the Brighton line, the Charing Cross line has to traverse the hilly High Weald, often on tight curves. To reduce rail journey times, a completely new line would have to be built.