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What is the world coming to?
Front-page news today - Train prices have gone up again!
Looks like it’s now cheaper to fly than get the train.  The most ecologically sound method of transport, the train, remains more uncomfortable, busier than ever and above all, far more expensive.
According to the front page of the independent:
Planes, trains, and the road to ruin
Soaring rail fares are boosting the growth in domestic flights and undermining the fight against global warming
Environmentalists and passenger groups have attacked the Government for driving rail passengers on to low-cost flights by presiding over a fourth consecutive year of inflation-busting train fares.
Sixty per cent of tickets sold have unregulated fares, which are set by private rail companies. These prices have gone up by as much as 8.4 per cent - more than three times the Government’s target rate of inflation - so that a standard open return ticket between Manchester and London now costs £219, or £337 for first class.
Isn’t it time something was done about this? When taxpayer’s money is frittered away in areas that are supposedly saving the environment, wouldn’t it be better spent on an improved, usable public transport system, rather than a dirty, overpriced nightmare.
What will it take for the government and the people to react and attempt to rectify this hypocritical waste of resource? What is the world coming to? Its end?
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