By design as the Tories would love to cut up the entire network to sell to more people and funding is usually for London. I suspect for the price of HS2, a lot of old lines could haetbee reopened and HS2 still could happen.
The only unreliable thing in Britain is our governments ability to make sound economic decisions.
The railway system is not obsolete and is a vital part for commuters. It’s just needed investment for over a decade.
“As a result, investment will need to be focused on areas that will “bring the highest economic and social benefits”, Network Rail said.”
This section troubled me most – sounds like it should read “we will let poor communities fend for themselves”
… Because private companies don’t invest profits into infrastructure and they funnel it straight to shareholders
I think they mean, “even less reliable”.
Almost every weekend there are line closures, engineering works or other planned cancellations of train services in my area.
Our services have lot so many more days to that than they have to strikes over the past year, but we’re meant to be angry at our fellow workers for the smaller number of strike days than we are at the government and the private companies for the number of days when there are “planned” cancelations!
It’s just following the fate of most enterprises sold off by the government to predominantly overseas interests. Now we shit in our rivers and trains that break down.
They can’t get the workers, young(ish) people these days are too “busy” studying pointless degrees and having arguments about why pronouns matter.
Scrap benefits!
Is “less reliable” better than its current state? Is this an upgrade from utter shite?
All that nonsense about hiking prices to improve the network was in fact nonsense then? What a surprise
Oh god, this is ridiculous. Our rail system is already a mess. So much for privatisation improving British rail.
Can anyone remember anything that was worse 10 years ago?
Everything seems to just get more expensive, busier, worse.
Or are the companies and people in charge of them unreliable 🤔
Given I’m currently 3 hours into a 2 hour journey, with another 30 minutes to go, travelling at an average speed of 18mph, I’m not sure the future tense is appropriate. The infrastructure *is* unreliable.
The only way it could get less reliable would be for bits of it to randomly explode.
What, less reliable than the total shit it is already?
Our railways are still using Victorian infrastructure and companies are still using trains from the 60s and 70s while waiting for new trains to be delivered. We pioneered railways when they first came about but never got around to modernising the system, so now we have a crumbling service as decades of underinvestment takes root. It will now take billions of pounds and years of work to bring the network up to a mediocre standard, let alone one that is world-leading.
Meanwhile, in Germany and the British-subsidised Deutsche Bahn network…
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By design as the Tories would love to cut up the entire network to sell to more people and funding is usually for London. I suspect for the price of HS2, a lot of old lines could haetbee reopened and HS2 still could happen.
The only unreliable thing in Britain is our governments ability to make sound economic decisions.
The railway system is not obsolete and is a vital part for commuters. It’s just needed investment for over a decade.
“As a result, investment will need to be focused on areas that will “bring the highest economic and social benefits”, Network Rail said.”
This section troubled me most – sounds like it should read “we will let poor communities fend for themselves”
… Because private companies don’t invest profits into infrastructure and they funnel it straight to shareholders
I think they mean, “even less reliable”.
Almost every weekend there are line closures, engineering works or other planned cancellations of train services in my area.
Our services have lot so many more days to that than they have to strikes over the past year, but we’re meant to be angry at our fellow workers for the smaller number of strike days than we are at the government and the private companies for the number of days when there are “planned” cancelations!
It’s just following the fate of most enterprises sold off by the government to predominantly overseas interests. Now we shit in our rivers and trains that break down.
They can’t get the workers, young(ish) people these days are too “busy” studying pointless degrees and having arguments about why pronouns matter.
Scrap benefits!
Is “less reliable” better than its current state? Is this an upgrade from utter shite?
All that nonsense about hiking prices to improve the network was in fact nonsense then? What a surprise
Oh god, this is ridiculous. Our rail system is already a mess. So much for privatisation improving British rail.
Can anyone remember anything that was worse 10 years ago?
Everything seems to just get more expensive, busier, worse.
Or are the companies and people in charge of them unreliable 🤔
Given I’m currently 3 hours into a 2 hour journey, with another 30 minutes to go, travelling at an average speed of 18mph, I’m not sure the future tense is appropriate. The infrastructure *is* unreliable.
The only way it could get less reliable would be for bits of it to randomly explode.
What, less reliable than the total shit it is already?
Our railways are still using Victorian infrastructure and companies are still using trains from the 60s and 70s while waiting for new trains to be delivered. We pioneered railways when they first came about but never got around to modernising the system, so now we have a crumbling service as decades of underinvestment takes root. It will now take billions of pounds and years of work to bring the network up to a mediocre standard, let alone one that is world-leading.
Meanwhile, in Germany and the British-subsidised Deutsche Bahn network…