Rail passengers should see more punctual services and cheaper tickets as part of a huge shake up of UK's railways, the government says.
It says a new state-owned body, Great British Railways (GBR), will set timetables and prices, sell tickets in England and manage rail infrastructure.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps admitted the current system was "too complicated" and "fragmented".
He also promised GBR would be more accountable for delays and disruption.
Maintaining those more punctual services on an electrified network which depends on wind power should be thoroughly entertaining. This game is not entirely unconnected with doing away with private cars I suppose. Plus the now familiar game of squatting on Sir Keir's political territory.
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It will work in close liaison with the Met Office. Tickets for trouble-free windy days will be expensive, whereas they will find it hard to give away tickets on days when it is expected to be calm and you could languish for hours outside Crewe. The new classes of tickets will be based on the Beaufort Scale.
What other State Owned or Run bodies do we know?
And how well are they doing at the moment?
Once it latches on to the taxpayer's tit it will be milked for all its worth.
It is all a scam to mask the costs of H2S and divert traffic to it.
The new staff will be an interesting bunch. Not helpful or uesful, but interesting. The High Heid Yins will of course be best mates, or relatives of our rulers.
Expect to see billions "invested" in new IT. With concomitant blank statements from "customer interface officers" that "The computah sez no." And do not dare look cheesed off, because you will be reported and your local friendly police farce will be round at 3 am to check your attitude.
Sam - and for those on expenses, apps will be developed to plan the most windy route for any journey as that will be the fastest.
Doonhamer - the new staff are probably the reason it's being done. The upper middle class just seems to grow and grow.
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