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Be grateful for the DLR – buses were the first choice

Tiffany Lynch, Tonbridge TN9
18 December 2013
Docklands: a rail-based solution almost didn’t happen at all.
Docklands: a rail-based solution almost didn’t happen at all.

 

I was interested in your front page item about Lord Heseltine’s reference to the Docklands Light Railway as a “toy town railway” in his recent speech to the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Whether or not his description of the DLR as an example of penny-pinching when it comes to long-term infrastructure provision is justified, some context is worth noting.

At the early planning stages of regenerating London’s Docklands, Canary Wharf was to be a very low density affair. It...

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