The Bucks and Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) have applied for significant funds to examine a business case for improving the rail link between High Wycombe and Aylesbury and to examine a business case for re-instating the link between High Wycombe and Bourne End. This is a long help aim of the HWS.
The LEPs are part of a new government strategy to promote economic development and growth, and will now set the agenda for the Local Transport Authority in our case BCC. The economic benefits of a reliable frequent non-road link between Aylesbury and the Thames Valley have been persuasive here.
This is a budgetary request, and the success or not should be announced at the end of summer 2014.