WHAT a cockeyed no-brainer. Who needs 20 minutes or so lopped off a train journey going to or from wherever? Especially at the mind-boggling price it’s going to cost.

If given the choice of a streamline railway service or a streamline NHS, I know what the majority of us would welcome most.

God forbid, but if a crowded fast tracker, because of its ill-planned idiotic speed, became derailed, I know, without having gone to university, which service would be of the greater value.

Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.