Re: Gerrards Cross update

Neil
By 'ill-conceived I meant that I was concerned about the construction work
involved in tunnelling the cutting and building a store over a very busy
mainline railway.
In fact I e-mailed Bob Crow of the NUR some two tears ago expressing my
concern 'that this was an accident waiting to happen'. Needless to say I had
no response back despite resending the e-mail a week or two later.
Let's not kid ourselves here. If not for an extraordinary stroke of luck, in
that the tunnel collapsed whilst empty, we would now be looking at perhaps
one of the biggest rail disasters ever to befall the rail network in this
country.
The thought of a packed Birmingham through express being hit at the point of
collapse with untold loss of life is too dreadful to contemplate.
Let's just hope that good sense prevails and the structure is removed.
Steve

"Neil Williams" <wensleydale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42ebe75e.2381814@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:20:18 +0100, "Steve"
> <stever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Lets just hope that this is the beginning of the end to this ill-conceived
>>undertaking.
>
> I fail to see why it is ill-conceived, other than because the local
> NIMBYs do not want a Tesco store. Had said store been constructed,
> however, I expect a significant number of them would still have
> shopped there, just as the Ormskirk NIMBYs who opposed the local
> Safeway (now Morrisons) store did.
>
> I personally do not share the opposition to Tesco that some hold, as
> they appear to have grown in the way they have by way of providing
> exactly what their customers, including myself as one, want.
> Sainsbury's, OTOH, have tended not to do this by way of their poor
> stock control, higher prices and poorer range, so haven't done as
> well.
>
> That the tunnel collapsed does not make it ill-conceived, either; from
> what is being said the design was sound, just not the construction.
> Cut-and-cover tunnels[1], after all, are by no means a new thing.
>
> [1] OK, this particular one was less of the "cut" and more of the
> "cover", but that's not particularly important, IMO.
>
> Neil
>
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