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Originally Posted by mertle
Bob Crow threatens first already.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19265985
Actually see where he coming from.
I did not like the 2 clowns in studio I thought beeb was impartial but his valid concerns going by first track record was belittled. It was almost if they was spokesperson for first let first defend themselves not 2 beeb presenters.
Look way she nods in agreement when the bloke reads first plans is she shareholder first by any chance.
I dont know who the cow and the bloke was but surely he had valid concerns.
I know bob crow bit nutter but in this case he has valid reasons about future where the train service going in the area. |
I hate the DfT right now. They have put me in a position of agreeing with Bob Crow.
Virgin Trains IMO deserves a lot of credit for what it has achieved on the WCML since privatisation. Branson took a huge gamble, taking it on when the rolling stock and infrastructure was all in such an awful state. As a regular if infrequent user over the past 15 years I can say that the service is as good now as it was awful back then. Virgin took all the flak as it frequently failed to deliver a service that arrived at anything like the advertised time, stuck with it, invested a pile in the tilting trains BR failed to bring to the WCML 20 years earlier and, in conjunction with improvements by Network Rail, now operates a clean, efficient and very fast service that gets you there, on time, the vast majority of the time (which is a mighty achievement on the West Coast, which is not 'a' line, so much as a complex, tangled network of lines criss-crossing and branching off each other).
Virgin Trains is a proven operator on the WCML and the DfT has taken one hell of a risk in handing the franchise to a company that has done demonstrably less well in arguably far less challenging circumstances. I am not optimistic.