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Perhaps Mr Prosser should tell us how much it is costing for the current engineering works to take the service through Shakespeare Tunnels to Dover?

I would suggest that the business case does not stack up and that we are seeing is nothing more than Labour politics at work. I suppose that they will need all the votes they can muster to save some embarrassment at the next election.

More importantly as a regular commuter from Folkestone West I am disappointed at the reluctance of Southeastern trains to provide a proper 'parkway' station facility to service Folkestone as a whole.

The proposed on street parking restrictions and expected future increases on car parking charges will only detract from the service as a whole.

The fact that the trains will still have to crawl to Ashford and the added expense to rolling stock build costs, as a result of having to accommodate 3rd rail traction, is a sad reflection of what could have been.

Thinking outside the box why could we not have seen a High Speed station being built on the CTRL adjacent to Eurotunnel OR given the development at Junction 11 why not there as it has adjoining mainline and motorway network?

Then we could have had a full high speed service which could have worked if Southeastern could have managed a shuttle service to feed the new station for non car owners.

Yours

N R Mc Dowell