Cuts In Local Rail Funding For The Severn Beach Line

EDM number 1702 in 2005-06, proposed by Kerry McCarthy on 27/02/2006.

That this House condemns the decision by Liberal Democrat councillors on Bristol City Council to recommend ending financial support for local rail services on the Severn Beach railway line in Bristol by cutting the entire £138,000 rail support grant from the local authority transport budget; believes that this decision puts the future of existing local rail services into doubt at a time when rail users are calling for an expansion of local rail services; notes that from December 2006 it is proposed to substitute a bus service for an existing through-train service along the line; supports the campaign to save Bristol's rail services; and calls on Bristol City Council to reverse this decision.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.