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M4 bus lane flop highlights folly of rail conversion dream

Edward Gibbins, Alsager, Stoke on Trent ST7
15 October 2010
 

In a letter published in April, railway conversionist Paul Withrington asked whether I accepted the word of Don Morin, that a single express bus lane may carry 50,000 people an hour. Paul failed to say where Morin’s words could be read. Denied his help, I discovered it was in an American publication Highway Progress, August 1970. 

I can now answer Paul’s question – no, the published word of Don Morin is not good enough for me! His paper was not a piece of scientific...

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