Network Rail has been today been instructed to improve the quality of its service with less money and there’s going to a row.
I have no particular sympathy for the company as it’s clear it has not been anywhere near as efficient in its use of public money as it should.
However, the fact remains that reducing chronic overcrowding on our rail network was one of Labour’s key pledges when they came to power in 1997.
They have failed dismally. Indeed, the problem is worse now than at any time in living memory.
Rather than wheeling Network Rail bosses out to take the flack for everything that’s going wrong with our trains, shouldn’t Labour Ministers by accepting at least some responsibility for the ongoing debacle?
Clearly the answer is yes – but it isn’t going to happen.
I have no particular sympathy for the company as it’s clear it has not been anywhere near as efficient in its use of public money as it should.
However, the fact remains that reducing chronic overcrowding on our rail network was one of Labour’s key pledges when they came to power in 1997.
They have failed dismally. Indeed, the problem is worse now than at any time in living memory.
Rather than wheeling Network Rail bosses out to take the flack for everything that’s going wrong with our trains, shouldn’t Labour Ministers by accepting at least some responsibility for the ongoing debacle?
Clearly the answer is yes – but it isn’t going to happen.
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