Rail is a far more attractive prospect than travel by bus.The numbers appear to bear this out,even more so,if you take into account the amount of pensioners that travel free on bus services throughout the UK.The Cumbrian and Cambrian coast services,for intance, have seen big increases because of improved services both by commuter and tourist traffic.The benefits of investing in a railway line as opposed to a bus service are well documented,probably best shown in the Mansfield reopening,not only in travel itself but as a means of boosting local economies,which again,the figures bore out.
Onto the reopening of the line from Amlwch to Gaerwen which would facilitate a service from Llangefni to Bangor.I would personally go the whole hog and reopen the line from Bangor to Caernafon as well.The line up to Gaerwen is extant,but overgrown and the infrastructure either needs replacing or repairing.Stations would have to be rebuilt and much would need to be done to bring it into line with current standards.The Caernafon line needs rebuilding completely.
I am not an expert on finance,but is EU money available for schemes such as this,to these regions?.To have towns such as Llangefni and Caernafon not linked to the National Railway network is ridiculous and as someone who has expierienced the latter's traffic at first hand,I can certainly testify to that.There are also of course the smaller intermediate towns such as Llanerchymedd,which would benefit from a reopening.
