Invest in freight distribution
The government should not be spending over £50bn on the new High Speed 2 rail network just to shave minutes off passenger journeys, says Bill Goodwin, sales director of materials handling and logistics company Briggs Equipment.
He believes the economy would benefit far more from investment in
infrastructure that would increase the amount of freight transported by rail.
Goodwin says a golden opportunity is being squandered to
revolutionise the way freight is managed in the UK. “I’m struggling to see the
benefits of spending billions on connecting a part of London to a part of the
Midlands. Is that the most appropriate way of investing in the infrastructure?
If we are going to invest in rail we should invest in freight. What we need is
to get lorries off the road. The development of a more substantial rail
infrastructure which would provide a better routing for freight would be a far
more logical step with a far greater economic benefit.”
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