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On 7 Apr 2006 00:33:44 -0700 someone who may be
angus_creech@hotmail.com wrote this:-

>> Actually re-opening the Waverley Route is being promoted by a group
>> of councils, led by Scottish Borders Council.
>
>Sorry David, that's simply not true.

Feel free to check who the Promoter of the Bill in Parliament is.
You will find that it is Scottish Borders Council.

>The initiative was suggested (and championed) by several Scottish MSPs.

Indeed. Before them it was championed by many people who are neither
party politicians or officials. In particular I would single out the
Campaign for Borders Rail and its various predecessors.

Although it is sometimes invidious to single out individuals, I
would suggest that if the line is built the greatest credit should
go to Petra Bieberbach for her tireless work over a number of years,
which changed the project from the "lunatic" idea of a few "mad"
people to something party politicians and officials wanted to take
forward. I hope she is invited to the opening ceremony and given a
place of honour, rather then some party politicians and officials.

>The Scottish Borders Council may
>be working with them, but it certainly didn't come up with the idea.

They certainly didn't, although they did a better job of protecting
the trackbed than Lothian Regional Council, which built a road
through the trackbed despite the pleas of many at the time that they
built the road over the trackbed instead.


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  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
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