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[peterleeblackcat]

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[Dilligaf60]

...Which is why nationalising the industry wouldn't work - it would be run by a Tory Government.

As far as transport in the north east is concerned they’re both cheeks of the same arse mate.

 

[Deleted member 48572]

Some of the conditions I’ve seen on trains last few weeks have been ridiculous, like a herd of cattle. It’s totally unacceptable.

I pre-booked a ticket yesterday and literally standing at the train station now. The train turned up 7 minutes late and were told there wasn’t enough space to get on. Now I have to wait an hour for the next one or get the bus.

 

[Dilligaf60]

Their reply man

Might just as well have told the lad to f**k off. It amounts to the same thing.

 

[Boris Bear]

Nationalise the lot.

You do realise that whoever runs it exactly the same people will work for Northern and exactly the same amount will be spent on the franchise??

 

[tunstallhill]

You do realise that whoever runs it exactly the same people will work for Northern and exactly the same amount will be spent on the franchise??

not necessarily. without shareholders taking billions in profits, that money can, and would be, reinvested into the system.

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Dunno if it will help much but if someone wanted to bang up a letter so posters could copy & paste then email off to the relevant nuggets? I’m sure if they get a few hundred from the smb it may touch a nerve?

 

[hank williams]

Dunno if it will help much but if someone wanted to bang up a letter so posters could copy & paste then email off to the relevant nuggets? I’m sure if they get a few hundred from the smb it may touch a nerve?

Aye a forum Northern won’t ever have heard of probably

but ignore the customers who use it daily /weekly get fobbed off

 

[tunstallhill]

Local tv don’t give a flying f**k about anything outside of shitsville mate.

It was no different when it was state owned mate.

but its 2021, its not the 70s anymore. give it a chance in the modern world. we either have it privatised, ran for the maximum amount of profit for shareholders as possible....or......nationalise it and put those profits back into network. everyone agrees its utter shite, so why not give another system a try? whats the worst that can happen?

aren't we supposed to be trying, as a nation, to reduce our carbon emissions? improve public transport to the levels we see on the continent, and it would reduce the amount of cars on the road

...Which is why nationalising the industry wouldn't work - it would be run by a Tory Government.

so get to the root of the problem and get the scummy bastard Tories out. and instantly improve the lives of the working people of the country. its not a complicated equation

 

[hank williams]

but its 2021, its not the 70s anymore. give it a chance in the modern world. we either have it privatised, ran for the maximum amount of profit for shareholders as possible....or......nationalise it and put those profits back into network. everyone agrees its utter shite, so why not give another system a try? whats the worst that can happen?

aren't we supposed to be trying, as a nation, to reduce our carbon emissions? improve public transport to the levels we see on the continent, and it would reduce the amount of cars on the road


so get to the root of the problem and get the scummy bastard Tories out. and instantly improve the lives of the working people of the country. its not a complicated equation

It’s been exactly the same under labour marra

 

[Boris Bear]

not necessarily. without shareholders taking billions in profits, that money can, and would be, reinvested into the system.

No you’re wrong. The DfT picks up all the costs of the franchise and pays a 2% management charge to the operator with a potential of upping that to 4% if performance targets are met, which they can’t be as infrastructure improvements are never delivered.

 

[Dilligaf60]

Dunno if it will help much but if someone wanted to bang up a letter so posters could copy & paste then email off to the relevant nuggets? I’m sure if they get a few hundred from the smb it may touch a nerve?

Be worth a shot mate. I’d sign it. Might not make a difference but it’s better than doing nowt.

 

[seahamstar]

not necessarily. without shareholders taking billions in profits, that money can, and would be, reinvested into the system.

Can see what you're saying, but can you really see the Tories ploughing money back into the system....up here?

 

[tenpins]

not necessarily. without shareholders taking billions in profits, that money can, and would be, reinvested into the system.

Billions in profits?

 

[seahamstar]

so get to the root of the problem and get the scummy bastard Tories out. and instantly improve the lives of the working people of the country. its not a complicated equation

Telling the wrong person mate.
I did what i could in the last election, but one bloke aint gonna get em out.

 

[tunstallhill]

Telling the wrong person mate.
I did what i could in the last election, but one bloke aint gonna get em out.

but pointing out the root of this problem may turn one or two people away from voting for the bastards again

 

[Boris Bear]

Billions in profits?

I would guess every operator in the U.K. put together has never made a billion profit from trains in a single year. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

 

[herra soul mob]

and people wonder why covid cases aren't coming down, there's one reason, the fkin ' spreader express '.

 

[hank williams]

and people wonder why covid cases aren't coming down, there's one reason, the fkin ' spreader express '.

Exactly what @Disco_Pants93 posted earlier

 

[tenpins]

and people wonder why covid cases aren't coming down, there's one reason, the fkin ' spreader express '.

Train and metro today mate?