http://tensixtyone.com/perma/why-trains-suck Rants of Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tensixtyone.com/perma/why-trains-suck/comment-page-1#comment-230 Salkunh Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:28:23 +0000 http://tensixtyone.com/?p=411#comment-230 One thing that has always puzzled me about privatisation, if the train you or I get on is an East Midlands, and we get off at a Transpennine Station, why do Transpennine get the ticket revenue? Obviously, if East Midlands sent a conductor down the train they would get the revenue, but how do Transpennine justify taking the ticket money when all they have done is provided a generally sub-par station? I know ticket prices are the same irrelevant of which train service you get on, but Transpennine wash their hands of the problem yet sit back and happily take the money. It's hardly fair is it? One thing that has always puzzled me about privatisation, if the train you or I get on is an East Midlands, and we get off at a Transpennine Station, why do Transpennine get the ticket revenue? Obviously, if East Midlands sent a conductor down the train they would get the revenue, but how do Transpennine justify taking the ticket money when all they have done is provided a generally sub-par station? I know ticket prices are the same irrelevant of which train service you get on, but Transpennine wash their hands of the problem yet sit back and happily take the money. It’s hardly fair is it?

]]> http://tensixtyone.com/perma/why-trains-suck/comment-page-1#comment-229 Michael Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:22:09 +0000 http://tensixtyone.com/?p=411#comment-229 As a nation I think we're just starting to debunk the myth that the private sector is any less able to cock things up than the public sector. As a nation I think we’re just starting to debunk the myth that the private sector is any less able to cock things up than the public sector.

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