A rail link between Oxford and Cambridge could help create a massive tech hub in the UK

"The corridor connecting Cambridge, Milton Keynes, and Oxford could be the UK's Silicon Valley," the Infrastructure Commission said in a report published this week. The report recommended bringing forward £100 million in funding to create a western section of the East West Rail project by 2024, and that the government should commit up to a further £10 million in development funding to continue work on the central section, the part that would link Oxford with Cambridge. There used to be a rail link between Oxford and Cambridge but it was closed in 1967. It currently takes two and a half hours and two changes via London to travel by train between the university cities. The report describes the journey as "difficult, slow and unreliable," contrasting it to the strong north-south links to and from London.