BFARe Press Release 15 November, 2024 Over the past few months, BFARe has been very busy obtaining detailed Route E maps from East West Rail through the Freedom of Information process. We carried out this work as it was evident that the scale of the Route E construction project had not been disclosed although was […]
BFARe Press Release 24 October, 2024 David Hughes, the new CEO of EWR Co (since June) met with BFARe and local representatives on Tue 22 Oct for a close look at the challenges faced by EWR and the impacted Bedfordshire communities between the Midland and East Coast Mainlines. The group from EWR travelled to points […]
BFARe Press Release 9 September, 2024 Two new EWR Plan Profile Drawings concerning Bedford town centre construction have been released through the Freedom of Information process. The town drawings are in addition to those already obtained through FOI for the area from Clapham to Tempsford as BFARe recently published. The new maps provide further information […]
BFARe Press Release 28 August, 2024 The East West Rail Co Bedford town area constructional impact assessment has now been released through the Freedom of Information process. A link to this report can be found here. https://bfare.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CS-00200147.pdf Jacobs Construction Advisory Team created the Construction Assessment Report, dated May 2023, at the time of the EWR […]
BFARe Press Release 5 August, 2024 The Route E constructional impact maps have now been released from East West Rail Co through the Freedom of Information process. These maps are referred to as “Plan Profile Drawings”. The drawings provide previously withheld levels of detail regarding the intended route and its implications for landowners, commuters and […]
The EWR Proposal is NOT fit for purpose New Petition Launched Calling for an Independent Review of EWR Project BFARe and Cambridge Approaches have created a new petition asking government to “Pause plans for Oxford-Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review” of the East West Rail project. The petition states “We do not want […]
Summary The Mayor of Bedford Borough, Tom Wootton, convened a Council meeting on 6th February 2024 to present the findings of three consultant reports that compare alternatives to the EWRCo preferred route through Bedford and out across north Bedfordshire countryside. These reports were from Systra, SLC Rail and JBA. In his summary report, Jon Shortland, […]
The National Audit Office report on EWR revealed the existence of an HM Treasury officer-led EWR economic growth board. But the public is not allowed to see who is on the board nor are we allowed to see their meeting minutes. Secrecy rarely leads to good decisions, and this unaccountable board and its meetings are […]
Cambridge Approaches and BFARe believe the Department for Transport (DfT) claims of EWR-related economic growth involve a dark world of wishful thinking. The onus is on DfT to justify spending vast amounts of public money – another £7-8 billion to go just on the railway construction. We are at least 10 years in to analysing […]
25 October, 2023 BFARe met Beth West, CEO of EWRCo and former Commercial Director of HS2 Ltd, on 25th October. BFARe sought an explanation as to why EWR had failed to consider our objections to Route E/Alignment in their Route Update Announcement released May 2023. To summarise the outcome of the meeting: Background In May […]