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Title: Rail passengers face another difficult year, warn MPs Post by: grahame on February 27, 2019, 09:16:36 From the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47376537
Quote Rail passengers face another difficult year, warn MPs Rail passengers face "another difficult year" with more major timetable changes and engineering works, MPs warn. Government management must improve "considerably" ahead of the changes, a Public Accounts Committee report found. It said passengers suffered "significant financial and emotional costs" during problems last year and they risk "continuing to pay the price" for strategic failures. The government said a "root-and-branch" review of the railways was under way. But the PAC said the Department for Transport still had "a way to go" before Network Rail - which manages tracks and other infrastructure - and train operators work together in a way that minimises disruption during infrastructure projects. [continues] I would suspect that the MPs are confirming much of what we already know ... at least in the Coffee Shop! ;D Title: Re: Rail passengers face another difficult year, warn MPs Post by: TonyK on February 27, 2019, 11:01:05 From the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47376537 Quote Rail passengers face another difficult year, warn MPs Rail passengers face "another difficult year" with more major timetable changes and engineering works, MPs warn. Government management must improve "considerably" ahead of the changes, a Public Accounts Committee report found. It said passengers suffered "significant financial and emotional costs" during problems last year and they risk "continuing to pay the price" for strategic failures. The government said a "root-and-branch" review of the railways was under way. But the PAC said the Department for Transport still had "a way to go" before Network Rail - which manages tracks and other infrastructure - and train operators work together in a way that minimises disruption during infrastructure projects. [continues] I would suspect that the MPs are confirming much of what we already know ... at least in the Coffee Shop! ;D Very true! The past few years have seen massive changes in infrastructure, but still with much to be done. It isn't ever going to be easy changing a railway at the same time as running it, but let's hope the PAC is just preparing us for the worst to make it look good when it doesn't happen. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |