The BBC reports that the proposed Olympic rowing lake at Willington will go ahead despite the inadequate local transport and the fact it will most likely scupper the Bedford to Cambridge railway proposals. All for a crappy training lake- it won’t actually see any competition- which will probably be largely useless come 2013. At least it will be part of a larger park, although I’m not sure what the effect will be on the existing cycle path between Sandy and Bedford via Willington (which would of course be banjo’d if the railway was to come in any case).
In other Bedfordshire train news, the police have introduced a passenger metal detector scanning pilot at Flitwick station of all places. I appreciate Luton has rather put Bedfordshire on the terror map, but really. I like that Inspector John Seamarks of British Transport Police said that Flitwick is not noted for high levels of violent disorder or anti-social behaviour and this operation is aimed at keeping it that way throughout the summer holidays when many young people use the trains to travel from town to town
. Obviously, it’s best to concentrate resources on places that have no crime in order to make sure that there isn’t any.