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In my opinion the railways have improved discreetly behind all of the controversy surrounding it. I beleive that the ralways have a huge potential if certain changes were made.
One of the biggest issues is that there is too much complication. The government does this and the comapnies do that. We need a simple and effective system.
I think that the government should keep on setting fares but that is it. If fares were left soley to firms it would be chaotic, imgagine if you wanted to travel from Manchester to Stoke, there would be 3 companies charging different prices!
With the exception of thatte government should just MONITOR the railways (not intervene regulary) and only come in if there is a real issue.
Lets scrap franchises and run the railways more like the airlines, where the operators could put their operation plans forward to the government, and they would decided whether to grant them permission to run, but being closely monitored for progress and intervening if there are issues concernin the TOC. At the end of the day, what good was it getting rid of Virgin Cross Country when they achieved their highest records for punctuality, the same for MML.
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