Looks like I’ll have to cut back on the office days then.
But no doubt Fuel Duty will be frozen yet again in the budget. This government hates sustainable travel.
Do we need trains anymore? We have flying cars now and computers at home. (A joke, my grumpy friends).
The Tory war on trains continues. If you go everywhere in a private jet I suppose you don’t understand the concept of public transport.
I reckon half the people who travel on local trains don’t pay anyway. By that I mean pensioners and migrants etc
They seem to have stopped selling return tickets in the last couple of weeks, at least on the routes I use. This has meant my train tickets have risen by about 25% already…
I’m in Australia atm, coming home to the UK in a few weeks. Got 3 different trains today on a journey spanning 150ks, bought the tickets 5 mins before it set off. Cost me £2.50.
Was going to Portsmouth in July from birmingham. The tickets were already expensive. Can’t imagine after April. I decided to go by car.
Need a major boycott of the railways, only travel on them if absolutely necessary and if you can work from home. These constant hikes are sickening.
Joke country
And this is whilst they are freezing fares in London?
Thieving, robbing arseholes
Might as well round it up to 5% lads, nice even figure for the share holders.
They can raise it as much as they like, I’d rather sit in traffic on my own time.
I used to use the train all the time as a teen. It was still expensive but somewhat manageable. I’ve used tbe train twice since covid now because it’s just insulting how much they charge.
I can’t see the train network surviving outside of London. It has no reason to survive the rest of the century.
We’re a pathetically car addicted nation.
The number must always go up. Infinite growth is possible right? Think about the shareholders here.
Absolute joke of a government. Where i’m living you actually get a discount from public transport. I was spending around 20 quid per month when i needed to use public transport daily, and at the start of the next month my card would get like a fiver back or something like that. Every time that happened it was a nice surprise.
Contrast to every time i have to use the train in England it feels like someone is taking a dump on my head.
I’m assuming this wont change the amount of cancellations and late issues on the day to day, they just want more money.
Bah. What a shit show. I hope Starmer was sincere in his conviction to take these back into state hands
Such a joke.
Manchester to London return is already £100-200+ weekdays
5 percent hike without our promised HS2.
What’s next Tories, a new monorail
Fucking disgusting considering it’s the worst rail service in Europe
If they squeeze us all hard enough we will take the car. Bon.
I’m looking to go into London almost every day for almost a year and I live fairly close to London but apparently a seasonal ticket will cost over 3K
😭
What the fuck? Rail fares in the UK are already ridiculously expensive compared to our European counterparts, and the service itself is absolutely terrible. We need to encourage public transport, not push people away from it.
What’s the point in this anyway. Barely a day goes by where there isn’t:
* A broken-down train (this one seems ever more common – where is the maintenance?) which writes off the timetable even once it’s been moved
* “Fault in the signalling system” which again writes off the timetable and causes several major lines to be blocked for hours
* There might be a light breeze later on? Cancel everything “due to forecast extreme weather”. When that doesn’t arise, you can without notice and at the last possible second just reinstate the A->H train starting at D, but is actually last-minute terminating at G and your ticketing app tells you before the driver does
* “A shortage of train crew” because of the above (and various other reasons)
* We’ll just cancel the very popular and always rammed 1100 service, but your tickets are valid on the 1137 which the station staff will then tell you not to board because it’s like Riverdance on there. The 1230 service will additionally stop at places you’ve barely heard of
The train is a stressful coin flip and the price just keeps ballooning. In 2023 I barely paid a bean to travel by rail simply because there were so many issues and so many 100% refunds being handed out. This is not economical for the government.
Oh boy It’ll be about 50p away from it costing me £1 a mile to go one stop once the price goes up. Next stop along on the line is 7 miles, it’s a main route so the trains run roughly every 15 minutes and all trains stop at my local station and the next stop along which is a city.
So much for public transport being cheaper than driving, It’s probably about £1 worth of petrol or nearly £6.50 for a train ticket
And yet still, we have an anti car agenda in some parts of the UK. They don’t want us travelling.
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Looks like I’ll have to cut back on the office days then.
But no doubt Fuel Duty will be frozen yet again in the budget. This government hates sustainable travel.
Do we need trains anymore? We have flying cars now and computers at home. (A joke, my grumpy friends).
The Tory war on trains continues. If you go everywhere in a private jet I suppose you don’t understand the concept of public transport.
I reckon half the people who travel on local trains don’t pay anyway. By that I mean pensioners and migrants etc
They seem to have stopped selling return tickets in the last couple of weeks, at least on the routes I use. This has meant my train tickets have risen by about 25% already…
I’m in Australia atm, coming home to the UK in a few weeks. Got 3 different trains today on a journey spanning 150ks, bought the tickets 5 mins before it set off. Cost me £2.50.
Was going to Portsmouth in July from birmingham. The tickets were already expensive. Can’t imagine after April. I decided to go by car.
Need a major boycott of the railways, only travel on them if absolutely necessary and if you can work from home. These constant hikes are sickening.
Joke country
And this is whilst they are freezing fares in London?
Thieving, robbing arseholes
Might as well round it up to 5% lads, nice even figure for the share holders.
They can raise it as much as they like, I’d rather sit in traffic on my own time.
I used to use the train all the time as a teen. It was still expensive but somewhat manageable. I’ve used tbe train twice since covid now because it’s just insulting how much they charge.
I can’t see the train network surviving outside of London. It has no reason to survive the rest of the century.
We’re a pathetically car addicted nation.
The number must always go up. Infinite growth is possible right? Think about the shareholders here.
Absolute joke of a government. Where i’m living you actually get a discount from public transport. I was spending around 20 quid per month when i needed to use public transport daily, and at the start of the next month my card would get like a fiver back or something like that. Every time that happened it was a nice surprise.
Contrast to every time i have to use the train in England it feels like someone is taking a dump on my head.
I’m assuming this wont change the amount of cancellations and late issues on the day to day, they just want more money.
Bah. What a shit show. I hope Starmer was sincere in his conviction to take these back into state hands
Such a joke.
Manchester to London return is already £100-200+ weekdays
5 percent hike without our promised HS2.
What’s next Tories, a new monorail
Fucking disgusting considering it’s the worst rail service in Europe
If they squeeze us all hard enough we will take the car. Bon.
I’m looking to go into London almost every day for almost a year and I live fairly close to London but apparently a seasonal ticket will cost over 3K
😭
What the fuck? Rail fares in the UK are already ridiculously expensive compared to our European counterparts, and the service itself is absolutely terrible. We need to encourage public transport, not push people away from it.
What’s the point in this anyway. Barely a day goes by where there isn’t:
* A broken-down train (this one seems ever more common – where is the maintenance?) which writes off the timetable even once it’s been moved
* “Fault in the signalling system” which again writes off the timetable and causes several major lines to be blocked for hours
* There might be a light breeze later on? Cancel everything “due to forecast extreme weather”. When that doesn’t arise, you can without notice and at the last possible second just reinstate the A->H train starting at D, but is actually last-minute terminating at G and your ticketing app tells you before the driver does
* “A shortage of train crew” because of the above (and various other reasons)
* We’ll just cancel the very popular and always rammed 1100 service, but your tickets are valid on the 1137 which the station staff will then tell you not to board because it’s like Riverdance on there. The 1230 service will additionally stop at places you’ve barely heard of
The train is a stressful coin flip and the price just keeps ballooning. In 2023 I barely paid a bean to travel by rail simply because there were so many issues and so many 100% refunds being handed out. This is not economical for the government.
Oh boy It’ll be about 50p away from it costing me £1 a mile to go one stop once the price goes up. Next stop along on the line is 7 miles, it’s a main route so the trains run roughly every 15 minutes and all trains stop at my local station and the next stop along which is a city.
So much for public transport being cheaper than driving, It’s probably about £1 worth of petrol or nearly £6.50 for a train ticket
And yet still, we have an anti car agenda in some parts of the UK. They don’t want us travelling.