TDG chief pours cold water on fixed link
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A FIXED CI1ANNEL link of any kind was dismissed as an "unnecessary enterprise" by Sir James Duncan. chairman of the giant Transport Development Group.
In an address to the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in Edinburgh last week, Sir James said that krries serve the industry well now.
He said: "One is bound to have sonic reservations at least about the concepts behind the presentation of railway services as protectors of the environment in general and our countryside.
"The transport development of the next decade having the greatest effect upon the environment could well prove to he the construction. for the railways, of the Channel Tunnel," said Sir James.
lie told CM that if there had to be a fixed link it should certainly be road and rail.