TavyRail campaigners discuss hopes for Tavistock to Plymouth line

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00:00Well this is just deja vu. We were here this time last year with the line approved and

00:09here we are this time this year with it ready to be approved again but at a very important and

00:17difficult point. So this is the line from Tavistock to Plymouth linking us, giving us better

00:24connectivity with Plymouth which will benefit not only the residents of Tavistock but the residents

00:29of Plymouth that will be a fast train journey from here through Beer Alstom into Plymouth helping

00:37commuters and shoppers and tourists and people taking leisure trips. And it's totally what the

00:43government wants to do. They want to do growth connectivity and we are growth and tech connectivity.

00:52Parts of Plymouth are desperate to be regenerated. We've got an enormous amount of money coming in

00:59four billion pounds are coming into Babcock. People are going to have to go there, work there.

01:04It's going to be a huge expansion for that part of Plymouth and we need a railway. Behind us are

01:12houses being built, many of them on the assumption there would be a railway and god willing there will

01:20be a railway and we don't need much money. We just need one percent and so that by 2028 the whole thing

01:27is still ready to be shoveled. It's shovel ready. Very important. These are very very important weeks.

01:35We could look at yeah yeah going back 10 years. If we don't get the money now you could be looking at a

01:4210 year delay if you'd have to start it all over again in in 2030 or some nonsense. But we're very

01:49much hoping that this time we will get the funding and we will be able to get the government to deliver

01:54the railway from Tavistock into Plymouth because it the Dartmoor line which connects O'Campson

02:01and Exeter has been such a phenomenal success. 1,100,000 journeys have been taken on that line.

02:10400,000 journeys a year now. It's made such a huge difference. A difference to young people,

02:17they're all traveling in and out to college, increasing their social circle, giving them

02:23opportunities that they never experienced before. People who want to go shopping in Exeter, people from

02:30Exeter who want to go shopping in O'Campson. So we hope that that situation will be replicated for Tavistock

02:37and help to boost the prosperity of the town. Absolutely and all we need is one percent of the funding.