MR G. Blackburn's letter (Journal Mailbox) makes very good sense. To make a railway link from Plank Lane to Wigan has endless possibilities because from Wigan you can get to anywhere in the country.
If the station was on the old colliery site, there is plenty of land for car parking and the Xanadu complex could also be sited there.
The busway is ridiculous. It will only go to Ellenbrook where the real traffic congestion starts. By train you are taken into the town or city centre. If this busway was started at Holden Road where would people park their cars.
I see we are to have a survey of why people do not vote: what another waste of money.
If the MPs and councillors would listen and act on what the electorate wanted instead of telling them what they are going to get, then the voters would take more interest.
H. Barrow
Crankwood Road, Abram
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