But but but privatisation will make everything more efficient right? No possible way this could be better under public ownership
Public transport is a disaster. From the north its hard to justify visiting anywhere in the UK via rail. Sometimes it’d more cost efficient visiting abroad…
Soon, people will just have enough money to get to work, pay rent, bills and food.
Nothing extra for any luxuries.
The logic baffles me. Ulez comes in to stop people driving and use public transport. And then they allow an increase public transport cost, which makes people want to drive?
The Scottish Government will increase ScotRail fares by 8.7% from April 1.
Interesting how it’s all shoved under the carpet when it’s SNP doing it
£10 per day it now costs me to travel on a 35 minute train to Manchester, the same train that is subject to constant strikes, unreliable and overcrowded. Season passes are largely useless for hybrid workers, and the flexi passes offer very minimal savings.
May as well.
I’m being “punished” by Thames Water, EDF, Tower Hamlets Council and every supermarket already. Let’s just add another to the list.
Yet here in Japan, I can get a commuter pass for a 50 minute train in and out of Tokyo for 136 pounds a month for outstanding service
The tories are a joke
Heavily taxed income going on train tickets that should be provided as a public service. Awful. They know they have a captive market so can prey on us and charge what they want.
I’m so sick of this.
10 years ago I could get a return to London for £6. It’s now over £14.
It works out now cheaper for me to drive to work than to take the train in. I’m lucky I get free parking in work but genuinely I’m starting to wonder is train prices being used to punish people without a car?
You are telling me that we need to pay even more for even less? Trains are overcrowded, being cancelled left right and centre, state of many of them is minging which indicates less and less money is spent on them with every passing week but prices are going to be increased nonetheless?
I’m not sure but something here doesn’t add up and stinks of „increasing profits sacrificing customers satisfaction” because in the end what really matters are shareholders.
We sure are dependent on cars, which ironically is supposed to make us feel independent. RIP traffic, though.
Why don’t they rise it to 100%? Everyone knows they all want money.
I got the train into my city yesterday evening. Cancelled, cancelled, delayed delayed. There wasn’t a single train from any of my 3 local stations running on time without at least 10 minute delay.
The whole system needs to be completely overhauled.
I sometimes have to make a trip from Bristol to Newcastle and back. Just having a look at flights, it’s £65.00 return on the same day or it’s £68.00 return for the following day. Train £250.00 with split ticket return same day or if I were to travel back the next day it increases the return to £310.00. Train is 4 times as expensive. I’d like to catch the train as it allows me to read a book, do some admin. But not at those prices.
The kicker is, there will still be strikes. The totality of it = ‘taking the piss’.
It’s, for what it’s worth, only the teacher unions now not deliberately trying to fuck over the general public/average taxpayer.
Biggest crime going this under the tories its disgrace !
It stops people taking jobs , it makes people drive more, it’s against the environment. It’s cheaper to get a plane on some journeys.
Absolute mess biggest virus was not covid it was the Tory government.
A corrupt disease we need totally rid of .
I had to cancel all my rail plans because of strikes and the price. Easier to drive places.
Great news for everyone who is being forced back into the office.
Politicians: “ yo get the publication to drop how the Muslims run the country”
Makes me feel better photoshopping train tickets. Absolute rip off merchants.
Think they are going to price themselves out of business!
I travel to London weekly from the south west and use national express now 1/2 hr longer and not as nice as a train but £30 return opposed to 70 odd on the train. So the ticket revenue must be dropping as people can’t afford it! Crazy world we live in!
I just priced up a trip to London, and it’s cheaper for me to drive there, pay congestion and ulez and parking in Westfield. So much for encouraging us to be greener if the greener options are more expensive.
5% rise for a shit service where the majority of the profits are used by the foreign company’s to subsidise their countries’ own rail services.
Neoliberalism and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the British public
I start a new job in April, I’ll work/live away a few days a week. WFH the rest. Thought I’d get the train. £158 return. Or £50 return to drive myself, be alone, in charge of my own destiny so to speak.
It’s a simple choice.
Prices are absolutely ridiculous.
Nice… add that on to the fact that I can’t get a local dentist and have to travel 30 minutes by train for an appointment and it’s starting to look more like a fucking conspiracy.
I pay £12 a day to get to work. That’s an hour of work a day just to fund my transport to the office. They’ve just risen again. The train is always too short, it’s usually late and always rammed. What a joke.
We’ve been getting punished on multiple levels for 20 years.
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But but but privatisation will make everything more efficient right? No possible way this could be better under public ownership
Public transport is a disaster. From the north its hard to justify visiting anywhere in the UK via rail. Sometimes it’d more cost efficient visiting abroad…
Soon, people will just have enough money to get to work, pay rent, bills and food.
Nothing extra for any luxuries.
The logic baffles me. Ulez comes in to stop people driving and use public transport. And then they allow an increase public transport cost, which makes people want to drive?
The Scottish Government will increase ScotRail fares by 8.7% from April 1.
Interesting how it’s all shoved under the carpet when it’s SNP doing it
£10 per day it now costs me to travel on a 35 minute train to Manchester, the same train that is subject to constant strikes, unreliable and overcrowded. Season passes are largely useless for hybrid workers, and the flexi passes offer very minimal savings.
May as well.
I’m being “punished” by Thames Water, EDF, Tower Hamlets Council and every supermarket already. Let’s just add another to the list.
Yet here in Japan, I can get a commuter pass for a 50 minute train in and out of Tokyo for 136 pounds a month for outstanding service
The tories are a joke
Heavily taxed income going on train tickets that should be provided as a public service. Awful. They know they have a captive market so can prey on us and charge what they want.
I’m so sick of this.
10 years ago I could get a return to London for £6. It’s now over £14.
It works out now cheaper for me to drive to work than to take the train in. I’m lucky I get free parking in work but genuinely I’m starting to wonder is train prices being used to punish people without a car?
You are telling me that we need to pay even more for even less? Trains are overcrowded, being cancelled left right and centre, state of many of them is minging which indicates less and less money is spent on them with every passing week but prices are going to be increased nonetheless?
I’m not sure but something here doesn’t add up and stinks of „increasing profits sacrificing customers satisfaction” because in the end what really matters are shareholders.
We sure are dependent on cars, which ironically is supposed to make us feel independent. RIP traffic, though.
Why don’t they rise it to 100%? Everyone knows they all want money.
I got the train into my city yesterday evening. Cancelled, cancelled, delayed delayed. There wasn’t a single train from any of my 3 local stations running on time without at least 10 minute delay.
The whole system needs to be completely overhauled.
I sometimes have to make a trip from Bristol to Newcastle and back. Just having a look at flights, it’s £65.00 return on the same day or it’s £68.00 return for the following day. Train £250.00 with split ticket return same day or if I were to travel back the next day it increases the return to £310.00. Train is 4 times as expensive. I’d like to catch the train as it allows me to read a book, do some admin. But not at those prices.
The kicker is, there will still be strikes. The totality of it = ‘taking the piss’.
It’s, for what it’s worth, only the teacher unions now not deliberately trying to fuck over the general public/average taxpayer.
Biggest crime going this under the tories its disgrace !
It stops people taking jobs , it makes people drive more, it’s against the environment. It’s cheaper to get a plane on some journeys.
Absolute mess biggest virus was not covid it was the Tory government.
A corrupt disease we need totally rid of .
I had to cancel all my rail plans because of strikes and the price. Easier to drive places.
Great news for everyone who is being forced back into the office.
Politicians: “ yo get the publication to drop how the Muslims run the country”
Makes me feel better photoshopping train tickets. Absolute rip off merchants.
Think they are going to price themselves out of business!
I travel to London weekly from the south west and use national express now 1/2 hr longer and not as nice as a train but £30 return opposed to 70 odd on the train. So the ticket revenue must be dropping as people can’t afford it! Crazy world we live in!
I just priced up a trip to London, and it’s cheaper for me to drive there, pay congestion and ulez and parking in Westfield. So much for encouraging us to be greener if the greener options are more expensive.
5% rise for a shit service where the majority of the profits are used by the foreign company’s to subsidise their countries’ own rail services.
Neoliberalism and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the British public
I start a new job in April, I’ll work/live away a few days a week. WFH the rest. Thought I’d get the train. £158 return. Or £50 return to drive myself, be alone, in charge of my own destiny so to speak.
It’s a simple choice.
Prices are absolutely ridiculous.
Nice… add that on to the fact that I can’t get a local dentist and have to travel 30 minutes by train for an appointment and it’s starting to look more like a fucking conspiracy.
I pay £12 a day to get to work. That’s an hour of work a day just to fund my transport to the office. They’ve just risen again. The train is always too short, it’s usually late and always rammed. What a joke.
We’ve been getting punished on multiple levels for 20 years.
Public transport should be the cheapest option.