The Friday Panel, John Perry, Cllr Marie Casserly

Um, you're standing by your stance that this is the right thing to do.

Well, I am.

Um, I am in that it's, I suppose it's, it-- In one way it's very, very simple, and another way it's been made very, very complicated.

Um, I suppose the issue is that nobody is stopping or blocking a train coming because that project isn't listed in, in any government plans until at least twenty fifty for a, for a train.

And it has been shown in so many different reports, independent reports, that the, the line isn't suitable because that line was built, I suppose, at a different era.

It was finished in eighteen ninety, around eighteen ninety, ninety-two.

And it was built at a time where there were, you know, very few roads or of, roads of, of any quality.

There were very few cars.

There were no, you know, universities.

There were no hospitals.

What that line was built for was to bring, you know, for p- to bring people to markets-

Yeah

-in towns.

But would you not like to see the rail line reopened?

Absolutely, one hundred percent.

I had a, I had a motion down for, for a, a new railway line to be built along the proposed, when the N-seventeen is happening to, for the, for plans to be made for that.

And that was actually disagreed.

Like, that, I, I didn't get, win that vote.

People actually dis-- Some councilors, um, voted against that proposal, which is the most practical proposal.

Yeah.

So if you're talking about putting a-

But, but, but you, you know, if the, if the Greenway is developed, you, you, you're, you're gonna have a situation where all that development, all the infrastructure associated with the Greenway will be torn up in-

But that-

-what? Twenty, thirty years' time

... yeah, even the language of, of being torn up and ripped up and, again, what I'm saying is the, it, it, what the options are, it's Greenway or nothing.

Um, you're standing by your stance that this is the right thing to do.

Well, I am.

Um, I am in that it's, I suppose it's, it-- In one way it's very, very simple, and another way it's been made very, very complicated.

Um, I suppose the issue is that nobody is stopping or blocking a train coming because that project isn't listed in, in any government plans until at least twenty fifty for a, for a train.

And it has been shown in so many different reports, independent reports, that the, the line isn't suitable because that line was built, I suppose, at a different era.

It was finished in eighteen ninety, around eighteen ninety, ninety-two.

And it was built at a time where there were, you know, very few roads or of, roads of, of any quality.

There were very few cars.

There were no, you know, universities.

There were no hospitals.

What that line was built for was to bring, you know, for p- to bring people to markets-

Yeah

-in towns.

But would you not like to see the rail line reopened?

Absolutely, one hundred percent.

I had a, I had a motion down for, for a, a new railway line to be built along the proposed, when the N-seventeen is happening to, for the, for plans to be made for that.

And that was actually disagreed.

Like, that, I, I didn't get, win that vote.

People actually dis-- Some councilors, um, voted against that proposal, which is the most practical proposal.

Yeah.

So if you're talking about putting a-

But, but, but you, you know, if the, if the Greenway is developed, you, you, you're, you're gonna have a situation where all that development, all the infrastructure associated with the Greenway will be torn up in-

But that-

-what? Twenty, thirty years' time

... yeah, even the language of, of being torn up and ripped up and, again, what I'm saying is the, it, it, what the options are, it's Greenway or nothing.