Travel in the UK is insanely expensive now. It’s all part of the squeeze on ordinary people’s living standards to enrich a parasitic class. Car hire, flights, fuel. Just mental all of it.
Don't worry, Boris announced a rebadged National Rail and called it Great British Railways so that will bring prices down soon enough and make them faster and cleaner.
You didn't provide the day you are travelling, but yes if you are quite specific about when you need to travel then the tickets can be more expensive. Dynamic pricing is a function of our rail services since privatisation regardless of who is running the line. It is shit.
Isn’t one of the reasons travel is so expensive is more of the ticket cost is borne directly by the traveller than by the state/taxpayers via subsidy?
If that is the case then they should increase the subsidy. Yes, that means that I as someone who commutes infrequently by train will subsidise someone who commutes frequently by train. Don’t care - it’s in everyone’s interest for the country to have decent and affordable public transport.
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What's covid got to do with it?
It's just Tories
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The trains ran empty for 1.5 years
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This was happening before COVID. Privatisation is the problem.
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Travel in the UK is insanely expensive now. It’s all part of the squeeze on ordinary people’s living standards to enrich a parasitic class. Car hire, flights, fuel. Just mental all of it.
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It's cheaper to drive than get the train
Almost like the govt want to encourage emissions
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Lner is not privately run just now and hasn't been since pre covid
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Part of the problem I think is ordinary people thinking they're above unionising. "Oh no I'm not a miner I'm a professional "
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Don't worry, Boris announced a rebadged National Rail and called it Great British Railways so that will bring prices down soon enough and make them faster and cleaner.
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About £30 with a railcard or £20 on Lumo
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Try again genius
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It's worse - I just tried clicking on thise and none of them goes through.
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I remember when you could get Edinburgh to London for £20 if you booked early enough
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Also heh
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Wow you found one on a day I'm not travelling very useful
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At a time when I couldn't be at the station even better
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You didn't provide the day you are travelling, but yes if you are quite specific about when you need to travel then the tickets can be more expensive. Dynamic pricing is a function of our rail services since privatisation regardless of who is running the line. It is shit.
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Isn’t one of the reasons travel is so expensive is more of the ticket cost is borne directly by the traveller than by the state/taxpayers via subsidy?
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If that is the case then they should increase the subsidy. Yes, that means that I as someone who commutes infrequently by train will subsidise someone who commutes frequently by train. Don’t care - it’s in everyone’s interest for the country to have decent and affordable public transport.
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