Thread: Southeastern Trains nationalised over breach of trust
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Old 04-10-2021, 15:21   #5
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Re: Southeastern Trains nationalised over breach of trust
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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
Maybe they could use the opportunity to tackle the absurd fare prices. Hardly encouraging anyone back to the workplace. Cheaper to fly from city to city in the UK.
Its what happens when profit is put before service.
The high fares are due to the government decision to cover the cost of railway modernisation partially through fares charged to the users of the service who will benefit from it.

Charges normally go down rather than up when they are privatised. That’s because the private sector can take a profit from efficiency savings and still have money left for price reductions.

Nationalised industries tend to be very inefficient because the financial discipline just isn’t there and jobsworths are tolerated.
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