haggishunter
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Roads close, traffic jams occur, accidents occur, weather disrupts road transport too etc. More to the point I’m going to Aberdeen to watch the Tennis tomorrow / Thursday. I could drive and have to well drive and not do anything else, but swear at people that can’t use roundabouts. But I’m going by train, because A) I can B) I don’t have to drive the train, so I can do something constructive with that time. How is that less convenient?In relation to the reliability and convenience of private car transport
Even in Scotland, services have been cut drastically - just look at the Cathcart Circle or Fife.
It is becoming increasingly unreliable and passengers (customers) are deserting.
In the vast majority of locations, with the exception of inner London, there are alternatives, in particular private road transport (cars/vans/lorries), which most individuals/companies consider better.
The present situation cannot continue and needs addressing urgently if the network is to survive without drastic pruning.
Financial basket cases cannot be propped up forever.
Well yes, the Cathcart Circle is a personally annoying considerable reduction in service level, but it is somewhat of an anomaly in extent of reductions, even though there have been other service reductions and things have gone the opposite direction somewhat from the revolution in rail that was promised for Scotland before covid.
Have services been that drastically cut in Fife, there has been a significant recasting of routing and timetables and certainly for going to Inverness from the Central Belt it makes sense as you can now change at Stirling from a much more frequent and higher capacity electric service from Edinburgh and Glasgow, with all Inverness services now calling at Stirling.
As for the Billions of £££s of Network Rail debt, does anyone really think closing Altnabreac is going to help?