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Absolutely. As someone who has taken the slothful Oxford-Cambridge bus (4 hours on average!) through winding village lanes several times, travelling between the two cities is painful. An expressway would be fantastic - especially if it can avoid the endless roundabouts around Milton Keynes, though I would also note that for academic-to-academic travel in particular, a direct train would be hugely beneficial, not least because (anecdotally) a decent percentage might not actually own cars.

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Is that the X5/905 bus? In Japan, you can get from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto (over 800km) in 4 hours!

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Dont even, Japan's transport infrastructure puts the UK to shame.

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Likewise holding out a modicum of hope for a direct train (although right now I’d settle for a punt).

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A good read. As you say, Labour have been in power half a year. This false start has been very curious and I wonder if they can overcome it. The main thing in their favour would seem to be the lack of any sort of disquiet in the parliamentary party. Yet.

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There have been some positive announcements recently - but it's surprising that it took half a year to get to this point. One would have thought this vision could have been set out on day one? It just means less time to make it a reality before the next election ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The rest of us seem to have long known Labour would win the last election, but somehow it seems to have taken them by surprise.

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