Our long suffering train users have been presented with a double whammy, further to the implementation of the summer timetable fewer services and higher fares.
Although the impact in London will be less than elsewhere, readers will still notice when travelling around the UK. The Strategic Rail Authority says that somehow cutting services improves the service. This defies logic.
Transport 2000 are right to highlight the impact fewer trains resulting (particularly in peak periods) in even more overcrowding and even less regard for health and safety. No wonder they warn people to travel now before matters worsen. The Government insists that it is trying to improve the incentive people have to leave their car at home. However the only sustainable way of doing this is to ensure proper investment in the system, which would begin to put it on a level with the service of our European counterparts.
This also calls for the ending of the culture in which providing a service comes a poor second to achieving operating profits.
IAIN DYSART
Chairman
Merton Liberal Democrats
May 30, 2003 16:00
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