Read in The Times this am:
National Express wants taxpayers’ cash to keep running East Coast trains - Times Online
At a time where rail fares have been increasing faster than inflation, I was reading this and thinking it was a further proof that the rail privatisation did not work, in the UK or anywhere else.
Its results are:
National Express wants taxpayers’ cash to keep running East Coast trains - Times Online
At a time where rail fares have been increasing faster than inflation, I was reading this and thinking it was a further proof that the rail privatisation did not work, in the UK or anywhere else.
Its results are:
- a poor deal for the consumer with one of the most expensive transport system in the world, sending more people than ever on the roads (an overused infrastructure with little investment over the last 20 years)
- little progress in upgrading and investments, with for instance no high-speed links between London, the Midlands and Scotland ; I mean Crossrail and HS1 are not much in 20 years
- overall, the service is sort of improving but is running on many lines over-capacity
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