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Kent played a bad hand on siting high-speed rail stations

Roger Davies, Kendal LA9
19 February 2010
 

You have to admire their cheek. I’m talking about Kent County Council and their Maidstone Parkway proposal.

When HS1, as it is now known, was first proposed, the eminently sensible suggestion was made that a station be built at Blue Bell Hill between Medway and Maidstone, slap bang amongst about 350,000 folk, far and away the largest population grouping in the South East outside London. It would have had a comprehensive network of connecting local bus services; I know, I devised...

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