The contrast between the treatment of the two stations at either end of the Severn Tunnel ....
From
the South Wales ArgusA NEW motorway link to Severn Tunnel Junction railway station is among proposals intended to improve passenger access to the site.
The station, in the Monmouthshire village of Rogiet, is used by approximately 230,000 passengers a year - but access is generally limited.
A new report highlights the lack of bus services to Severn Tunnel Junction and notes there is poor access for safe walking and cycling, as well as no bike storage. Vehicle access, meanwhile, is "constrained by the narrow width of and parking arrangements on Station Road".
From
GWR▸ at
FoSBR» 's
AGM▸ . - and I paraphrase - "no, we won't even consider more trains calling at Pilning unless we're ordered to do so" .... and yet, from
http://www.sewweb.info/leaflet.pdfPassenger flow projections (year 3)
Pilning
= 273 each way per day; c 165,000 jpa
I can't help feeling that there might not be a level playing field here between public transport support and development on the two sides of the Severn Estuary.