“If there were events taking place every single week in the Millennium Centre, the Millennium Stadium or the [Cardiff] City Stadium, you might say ‘okay, there are some weekends when that’s inevitable’ but for some reason they choose weekends when there are big events taking place in Cardiff.”
Major engineering works are planned months, sometime years in advance. It is, as Network Rail adroitly point out, essential work. They do not plan it to disrupt events going on in Wales, despite the paranoia experienced by Mr Jones. Indeed, it is likely that those events never appeared on the planners’ radar – other factors being more important – such as the availability of engineers, labour, machinery equipment and replacement track, fittings and so on. They will also have had to make arrangements to buy back the track access from the train operators. All of which will have been planned and agreed something like eighteen months ago.
Still, don’t let reality intrude into your delusional attempt to make a name for yourself on the news, eh, Carwyn?
Mr Jones believes the closures will cause travel problems, having a negative impact on the world-wide image of Wales.
Yeah, right. Keep taking the tablets, Carwyn.
“This vital project cannot be put back any further and to cancel it would have a negative impact on services from south Wales to London.”
Well, yes and as Network Rail is all too aware, from the derailment at Hatfield, putting off maintenance work can have negative impacts rather more serious in nature than some people being a bit late for a rugby match. FFS! Still, Carwyn has got his priorities right – Wales’ s worldwide image is more important than the safety of the line and peoples lives.
Another fine example of the way the railways are expected to do absolutely everything, all at once, without disruption and preferably without cost.
I note his assertion that a rail link should have been added to the second Severn Bridge. Funding and cost benefit being quite irrelevant of course. My response to that would be, you got the large measure of self government you wanted, if you want extra rail facilities as well you pay for them, which would be the last we heard of it except for a low muttering about the bloody English being a bunch of tightwads.
Actually maybe they could put in some cash up front by withdrawing the subsidy the WAG pays for a pointless express service between Holyhead and Cardiff.
Precisely. The cost of a second deck on the bridge, quite apart from routing the line at each end doesn’t appear to have entered this cretin’s mind. Mind being a loose term here.
Rugby League??? Most proper Welshmen wouldn’t cross the road to piss on a Rugby League player if he was on fire. Jonathan Davies is still considered a National traitor to the “Real” game by going “North” all those years ago.
Leak? you bet your waterlogged boots the Severn Tunnel does! When I was a kid (50’s/60’s there were just four ways of getting to South Wales. You could drive to the Aust ferry which took a maximum of 10 cars an hour; You could drive round via Gloucester which added an hour or more to the journey, you could even get a paddle-steamer from WSM to Cardiff, or you could let the train take the strain via the tunnel. Now we have not one but two Bridges that carry so much traffic I’m amazed we Welsh didn’t starve to death prior to 1966. Carwyn is an idiot!
“…having a negative impact on the world-wide image of Wales.”
Apart from the singing, that’d take it into negative figures, surely?