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The chair of Merseytravel, Councillor Mark Dowd, said it "shows a total disregard" for users of public transport.
Mr Dowd said: "To plan these works during one of the year's busiest days for our rail network shows a total disregard for the thousands of rail passengers who will now have to use replacement buses to get to the Grand National.
"We've asked Network Rail to revise the date or suspend the works on Grand National day but our pleas have fallen on deaf ears and the management of Network Rail are pressing on regardless."
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What Councillor Dowd should have said was that it shows a total disregard for those users that are normally motorists and only use the trains once a year so that they can get stoned out of their minds at the races.
Network Rail are working to improve the rail system for regular users and everything shouldn't have to come to a halt just to satisfy a few occasional passengers who would not normally be seen dead on public transport.
5th April 2007, 12:09
