BBC News report that rail fares are set to rise by an average of 6% in the new year. Now where have I heard that before?
When will the government realise that you can't have a successful public transport system without serious public investment? Public services will never pay for themselves, that's the simple conclusion that countries like Germany reached years ago, and look at their public transport system.
Yet Britain seems intent on turning every public service into a profit-making business, even though the figures can never add up without either driving passengers off the trains (through sky-high prices), or cutting back the very service they should be providing (the policy Dr Beeching pursued back in the '60s).
We should just bite the bullet and realise that public money is the only way to properly pay for a decent public service.
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