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Bionic duckweed

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Bionic duckweed is a phrase coined by Roger Ford the technical editor of Modern Railways magazine in evidence given before the Transport Select Committee in the Parliament of the United Kingdom[1]. Since then other authors have used the phrase usually in conjunction with ridiculing the UK Department for Transport's alleged or apparent lack of appetite for electrification[2][3]. The phrase was specifically first used when there was a serious proposal to pull down the overhead line wires on the East Coast Main Line north of Newcastle and use biodiesel powered trains instead. With hydrogen powered trains now being suggested, there is fear in the railway press that the Bionic duckweed of the Department for Transport is once again coming to the fore. However, in May 2019 the chair of the transport select committee Lilian Greenwood invited submissions entitled 'trains fit for the future"[4] which is supposed to help with the direction UK Transport may head.

In 2020, further authors mentioned the concept again because of amongst other reasons, serious frustration is arising because politicians especially in the United Kingdom, keep putting off investing capital because tomorrow there will allegedly be something better - Bionic Duckweed[5]. Stian Westlake wrote about it in an article entitled "Making the future an enemy of the present". Jack Stilgoe has written about the concept too. Tim Harford even wrote about it in the Financial Times in October 2020[6].

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  1. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtran/219/219.pdf
  2. Fenton, Tim (2017-07-20). "Zelo Street: Grayling Rail Scandal EXPOSED". Zelo Street. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  3. Bigl, Paul (2015-06-26). "More grandstanding from Labour's Michael Dugher". Paul Bigland. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  4. "Trains fit for the future? inquiry". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  5. https://medium.com/@stianstian/bionic-duckweed-using-the-future-to-fight-the-present-3e471b642c28
  6. https://www.ft.com/content/e25c82f5-d447-448f-8a40-235a5938babc


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