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Comment

Representation ID: 24809

Received: 14/10/2017

Respondent: East Suffolk Travellers Association

Improvements are needed to the local rail network. Atkins, consultants to East/West Rail, are putting the case for an increase in train service frequency into Ipswich from Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe. This will require additional platform capacity at Ipswich and double-tracking the Felixstowe line. The proposed Ipswich Garden Village should benefit from a relocated Westerfield station served by more trains than at present. East Suffolk Line capacity should be enhanced to enable half-hourly services to Woodbridge and Saxmundham, and provide Woodbridge with a more attractive service into Ipswich. Ideally, the entire section from Woodbridge to Saxmundham should be re-doubled.