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>I'm in favour of nationalisation for UK rail simply because privatisation of UK rail has been a mess. It was a mess before it was privatised. For all the crit
by tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>I'm in favour of nationalisation for UK rail simply because privatisation of UK rail has been a mess.
It was a mess before it was privatised. For all the criticism there has been a lot of investment in UK railways and passenger numbers have skyrocketed since privatisation.
The pricing is fine, if it wasn't then the trains wouldn't be running at capacity (putting aside covid effects). Personally I would be pretty pissed if I had to subsidise my neighbours transport costs just so they can commute to a higher paying job in London.
- stuaxo 5y agoYou do subsidise it, whether the roads (which are massively subsidied) or the railway. The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>You do subsidise it Not much, as you can see by @cirrus-cloud's price comparisons. >The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway. It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it.
- rawTruthHurts 5y ago> It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it. Privatisation didn't deliver what it promised.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoCustomer satisfaction is the second highest in Europe. The number of journeys has increased by 128%. The average real-terms increase in fares has been lower than under British Rail. We now have the safest railways in Europe [1]. The amount of investment has gone up nine-fold. [2] What hasn't happened is stopping politicians meddling with it, this was a problem before and continues to be. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-safe-are-europe-railways https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-sa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of_British_Rail#cite_note-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...