High fares - a deterrent to higher passenger numbers

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[Lee]

Finally it was interesting to see so much made of me using the name “Mavis.” Whilst it is true that the name has fallen from favour amongst the white British, that might not necessarily be the case for people with other skin tones. That subject might be a dangerous place to go, even in jest.

Ooh, I don't really know...

[Robin Summerhill]

Finally it was interesting to see so much made of me using the name “Mavis.” Whilst it is true that the name has fallen from favour amongst the white British, that might not necessarily be the case for people with other skin tones. That subject might be a dangerous place to go, even in jest.

Ooh, I don't really know...

The  funny thing is I was thinking of that character when I used the name in my original post 

[Robin Summerhill]

I've never heard the news media say, "all trains are always late..."

Vox pops once in a while on/in the media, maybe. But not the media itself.

That's what I meant but I didn't put it very well.

Given the mantra that good news is no news, almost all railwy coverage by the media is bad news - disruption, strikes, overcrowding etc. The vast majority of those send a reporter out to interview Joe Public. And most of the comments broadcast are negative

It all adds to the drip drip drip of this stuff fed to the public, and I suspect a large number simply lap it up.

This is added to by idiot comedians like Hugh Dennis who seem to work a stupid "joke" about Southern into many of his routines. Perhaps he's unaware that comedians were telling "jokes" about stale railway sandwiches in the 1930s and they weren't funny either...