the railways

do you think the railways should be re-nationalised

  • yes

    Votes: 21 87.5%

  • no

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
  • Poll closed .
My argument is the money the private firms have paid their shareholders should have been re invested or used in another useful way.the public money that has been given to private firms is a disgrace.back in the eighties we were promised competition which would have meant cheaper rail travel.what we got was the opposite.the most expensive in europe .
 
The same principal applies fer most of our industry, not just those they sold off, The railways should certainly not have been flogged off.;)
 
Something drastic needs to be done. Commuters are paying through the nose for transport that is atrocious. There must be a way to make public transport more user friendly. They want to get people out of their cars and onto public transport, yet what transport there is, appears not to be fit for purpose.
I am with Cashy in thinking that public transport should not be in the hands of those who only want to make a profit, not run a service.
 
Rail prices are set to rise yet again...for the second time in 6 months, it really pee's me off, as many know i travel a lot by train, my family railcard from April will be £30, that goes up at a rate of £2 per year, kids get 60 % off with it and adults get 1/3 off, soon the price rises are going to stop me travelling by train because i just can't afford it which is such a shame because i love travelling the country by train
 
I very rarely use the train these days, even though i much prefer it, Far too expensive. Got a price to go Norwich Return a few years ago was just oer £200, costs me less to FLY to Malaga.:(
 
I love travelling by train -at the perfect height for seeing everything out of the window and you can read, listen to music etc while you travel. You also get more of a sense of the distance your travelling. I always seem to manage to strike up a conversation with fellow passengers and it's nice to talk to complete strangers for a while...other people's lives are so interesting.

As to re-nationalizing -imagine that would be difficult -if it were for me though we'd go back to the age of steam too!:D
 
Just where would we get the money to re nationalise the railways, remember the countries broke, we've no money we're in hock up to our neck,
 
Of course the railways should be re- nationalised but can't see any way it will happen... it's already been said here that the privitisation should not have happend same as electric and gas...but most worrying is the Tory dogma and hatred of any "public service"...the NHS is the seems to be the next target.
 
Mancie said:
Of course the railways should be re- nationalised but can't see any way it will happen... it's already been said here that the privitisation should not have happend same as electric and gas...but most worrying is the Tory dogma and hatred of any "public service"...the NHS is the seems to be the next target.
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Don't take Bamber Gascoigne to figure out who the 1 vote is?:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:
 
the government could grow a set of balls and do a compulsary purchase of the rail system and untilities.If councils can force people out of their homes with compulsary purchase orders giving people under value of their property i dont see why government cant do teh same with services.In some countries a government would walk in and shoot the owners and take ownership so i dont think a comulsary purchase seems to bad once you weigh up alternatives :D

or we could all just march down to london and torch the houses of parliament with teh lot locked inside and start a fresh :D
 
accyman said:
or we could all just march down to london and torch the houses of parliament with teh lot locked inside and start a fresh :D
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We would have to march down, trying to get there on public transport would be far too expensive and we wouldn't get there on time!
 
went up to spugsters for crimbo .. bought my tickets on 3rd November ... cost £17.15 return ... thats with a disabled railcard though ... have been pricing the tickets to go up for easter ... cost £50.15:( a big difference ... cost to preston with a disabled rail pass £5.15 ... had to go to preston a couple of weeks ago ..

anyway re privatise it .. seeing as the taxpayers are paying for all the improvements on the lines .. we might as well have the benefits of the high fares going back into the governments pockets ... for reinvesting in the country .. rather than going into the back pockets of the shareholders of the many companies that are running the trains .. and staying there ..
 
A great folly to privatise the railways in the first place.. we were told this would create choice and competition:D...users don't want competition, they just want to buy a ticket to get from A-to-B at a reasonable price.
 
how would it damage the economy.it would be keeping money in the country and could be the start of an integrated transport system which would help the economy.
 
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