The New Civil Engineer reports today that Alex Williams, City Planning Director for Transport for London, has called for firm commitments to providing additional infrastructure for linking Heathrow, saying

“What we want is firm commitments that Western Rail access happens, and Southern Rail access happens, and it happens in a way that genuinely increases capacity.

“Our concern is that neither are firmly committed.”

New Civil Engineer also reports:

[The] Windsor Link Railway would be expected to link the Great Western and South Western franchise routes while connecting both to Heathrow.

The full article is available here.

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