Stephen Wolstenholme of the Department for Transport in Westminster, regarding the re-use of the tunnels under Liverpool's city centre, stated on 8th October 2008, "No such discussions with Merseytravel have taken place". He went on, "The Government?s current policy is that the shape of the rail network may need to change in the longer term, but the agenda for the period to 2014 should focus on meeting demand growth on the existing network. The Department?s plans were set out in the rail White Paper published in July 2007."
The passage, "focus on meeting demand growth on the existing network". Merseyrail is the existing network. Merseytram is a proposed network. There maybe hope that the tram scheme is killed stone dead in February at the latest. Then Merseytravel have to focus on the existing rail infrastructure and use it. Which they should have done 10 years ago.
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