18.07.14
Debate on re-nationalisation
Source: Nonsuchmike
Go on, quit then; cut your nose to spite your face, TOCs! Whereas DOR (a not for profit company) on the East Coast Main Line is a good model, it is not the finished product. Not least because of lack of trains and perhaps lack of sufficiently trained personnel. And the reduction to two lines on the Welwyn North Viaduct!
Currently TOCs have their cake and eat it if they half efficient. And most are only half efficient. They then pay back their profits in over inflated wages and expenses to directors, senior managers and shareholders, whereas the sardined public who huff & puff at cancellations and up to THREE hours between regular services (whoever heard of such an insulting service?) between major cities have to put up with these shenanigans in relative silence.
Can you wonder that the passenger increase is not what it could have been if handled properly these last six or seven years? There is a germ of truth in both camps. It is up to all sides to LISTEN to the others' points of view and then come up with a workable and agreed compromise. Whatever that final agreement may be is going to require investment in rolling stock, track AND station improvements as well as training across the board.
Re: TOCs threaten to quit rail industry if Labour reforms go ahead