Spending money on new trains would be a massive start. Longer trains would increase capacity immediately. Shaving a few minutes off a journey between Birmingham and London is nowt. Investment in the infrastructure is what is needed along with trains fit for purpose. Not cramming people in like sardines.
Biggest rail strike since the 80s
- Thread starter Iballistic George
- Start date
London underground 23rd - 28th July
RMT and train firms take step towards ending dispute
Workers will vote on a pay deal that could halt 18 months of disruptive strike action.
www.bbc.co.uk
BooRMT and train firms take step towards ending dispute
Workers will vote on a pay deal that could halt 18 months of disruptive strike action.www.bbc.co.uk
HeaderDownBrown
Winger
RMT deal agreed for Guards, votes have just come in and as mentioned above it's for 2022 and individual TOC's to negotiate for 2023. Means an end to the strikes for the Guards, Driver's to hopefully follow suit but nothing happening at all it seems.
Why is there an apostrophe in "drivers"?
Big Jeff
Winger
Because it is a grammatical error. We all make mistakes occasionally.
A lot of people seem to be putting apostrophes in plurals for some weird reason.
HeaderDownBrown
Winger
Mind blowing stuff indeed
Boris Bear
Striker
Punctuation error, surely?
Big Jeff
Winger
Fair enough but don’t call me Shirley
Select coaches
Winger
I’m glad you cleared that up,I just couldn’t get the gist of what he was trying to say. I really thought there was only one driver on strike for a minute.
Or something belonging to said driver.
Silly Point
Winger
Aslef will see to that don't you worry
0verlord44
Winger
BBCs coverage of the drivers strike this morning is nothing short of disgusting.
only interviewed people who neither care or know anything about the strikes and provide no 'balanced' view which they are apparently there to do.
only interviewed people who neither care or know anything about the strikes and provide no 'balanced' view which they are apparently there to do.
Big Jeff
Winger
Not wishing to start an argument but perhaps their reporting reflects what the average British citizen feels about the dispute. i.e. not really bothered.
Most people have bigger concerns like paying their bills and getting ready for Christmas.
0verlord44
Winger
no interviews with union officials, strikers or members. Only the average man on the street who is being put out by it. Sky do the same thing. Only difference is they are not paid for by the electorate and therefore are supposed to be impartial. They arnt.
Not arguing and I imagine plenty aren't bothered, but possibly because they are not as well informed as they should be. The same old trope of ''strikers causing the average Joe inconvenience '' with nothing to balance it out just leads to the government getting exactly what they want, less strength for the worker
