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Originally Posted by BBC News
The firm was given a different fare calculation because of high-speed services to be launched next year.
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Hmmm, that seems a bit loaded to me. It implies that the majority of Southeastern passengers who travel on the heavily overcrowded commuter services are subsidising a minority who will travel in the (relative) comfort of a high speed Javelin to St Pancras.
It's yet another example that this Government isn't serious about getting people out of their cars and onto public transport. When the M25 in Kent was widened it came out of the national budget, but when they actually build a piece of railway for the first time in eons, the rail passengers of Kent are forced to pay extra, even though most of them CAN'T use it. Once again politicians are saying one thing and doing the opposite - making car travel more attractive. No surprises there then.
22nd November 2008, 12:57
