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Old January 12th 13, 10:02 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
Martin Edwards[_2_] Martin Edwards[_2_] is offline
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On 11/01/2013 19:59, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 11/01/2013 19:49, d wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:04:26 +0000
Graeme wrote:
On 11/01/2013 15:42,
d wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:12:05 +0000
Martin wrote:
Sadly all forms of public service just treat public finances like
a money
tree with scant regard to efficiency unless they're forced to by
caps,
whether
its the government, TfL, local councils or the BBC. In TfLs case
when they
need more money they don't look for efficiencies, they simply put
up the
fares way above the rate of inflation. Every ****ing year.

B2003

Maybe the government should have just let the railways go out of
business in 1947.

If there's a good reason why the tube is the most expensive metro
system
in the world I'd love to hear it.

Cite?


Enjoy.

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