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Question: Which are the most important factors to YOU when you elect to travel by train?  (Voting closed: August 13, 2019, 14:14:21)
Accessibility - 5 (1.4%)
Capacity of service - 41 (11.4%)
Catering - 7 (1.9%)
Cleanliness - 24 (6.7%)
Comfort and facilities at station - 13 (3.6%)
Comfort of train - 33 (9.2%)
Cost of use - 40 (11.1%)
Current and easy to find information - 16 (4.5%)
Facilities on train - 18 (5%)
Final Mile - getting to / from the stations - 10 (2.8%)
Frequency of service - 42 (11.7%)
Journey Duration - 29 (8.1%)
Nationalised or not - who operates the train - 1 (0.3%)
Professionalism of staff - 14 (3.9%)
Reliability of Service - 46 (12.8%)
Safety - 19 (5.3%)
Understandability of how to use the train - 1 (0.3%)
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« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2019, 21:24:03 »

Catering   - 7 (1.9%)
I wonder how that compares with posts on here as a proportion of overall posts (excluding stuff like the Lighter Side).

You put me between a rock and a hard place if I try to answer that - ignore it and I'm not following up on a poll I started, but answer it and we're back on ....ing catering.

Accessibility and Catering are both parts of the "system" that don't apply to everyone - accessibility only to those in wheelchairs, pushchairs, heavy luggage, walking with difficulty and transporting owls around; catering only to those who's journeys are medium to long ... on a network where so many journeys are short.  I don't know what the figure for GWR (Great Western Railway) is - but I recall the UK (United Kingdom)'s average rail journey being just a bit over 20 mile and you ain't going to want to use a trolley, buffet or restaurant car on that ... and GWR has a mix of services unlike LNER» (London North Eastern Railway - about).

I could (but am disinclined to) write a database query to weight votes in the poll based in proportion to the number of posts made by the voter in the last (say) 6 months ... and I would be pretty sure the relative proportions would change.  In other words, our I believe our poll better reflects the quieter majority of members rather than the noisy few of us who distort the appearance that postings give.  I will add ... the only "low response" item I voted for was "final mile" - the issue of getting to and from the station in the first place!
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