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UK Rail Fare’s are the third highest in Europe.
The BBC currently class the subject of the UK’s public transport as a “Hot Topic”, here are their key points:
“…Rail fares in the UK are now the third highest in Europe
Only 12% of all journeys are made by public transport - 70% are made by car
In 1999-2000 there were 917 broken rail tracks - one of them killed four passengers
Even the government admits Britain’s road and rail network is amoungst worst in Europe…”
Reference: Hot Topics
Interesting facts; one of the most expensive, yet one of the worst. Is this to do with the private rail system? Should it be government owned? Where is all the money going?
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2 Responses to “UK Rail Fare’s are the third highest in Europe.”
1) Yaa101 13 October 2006 @ 6:18 pm
There needs to be a balance between ownership when it comes to infra that is payed for by the public in the past and of which there is only one, This is true for most common utilities like water, electricity, some means of transportation that can not escape it’s route like rail and so on.
Handing these infra over to the just privatized fields make these private entities fuse very quickly becoming a monopoly or duopoly as worst case scenario and a Oligopoly as best case. What happens is that these entities stop investing and supporting their expensive infra while trying to wriggle as much money as possible from the deteriorating infra effectively raising the middle finger towards their customers. When the infra broke they just sell it off to some VC sharks that will dismantle the whole lot and leave workers and clients standing in the cold.
This means that the public needs to own and stay owners of the by their tax paid infra while renting usage leases to companies that want to use the infra to sell their electricity, data streams, television signals and so on. This will not happen on a volunteer base by the now powerful utility companies that were given these infra by our elected leaders while they did not had the right to give away other people’s property in the first place. It was not theirs to give away, whatever they were thinking. So this will be the next big fight by the people to get back the infra that was stolen from them.
2) Cheaper By Car | News 24 October 2006 @ 1:53 pm
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