Alternatively, and more realistic, there will be calls for cost cutting within the most highly subsidised TOC in the country.
At the moment, the subsidy is increasing not decreasing in line with the plan. This is almost certainly down to the declining standard of service, and the non-delivery of improvements. In other words the government has made the "problem" of subsidy worse itself.
The service running on strike days has declined sign recently so this would be a bit of a surprise.
With just over 2/3rds of the Northern cost picked up by DfT and ~ 1/3 by passengers they need to focus on getting more fare paid passengers and reducing the cost of service provision...
If my Union released such claptrap I'd leave them immediately.
Says it all that the political stuff is at the top. Members come a distant last in his thinking, almost an afterthought.
So ordinary hard working people are being held to ransom, not because of DOO, not because of changes in job roles, not because of passenger safety, but because of partisan politics.
Government hasn’t made it worse by itself, a combination of Network Rail and northern mismanagement alongside a long term strategic campaign of industrial action by the RMT have done so
The DfT's tender and Network Rail's failings are the main causes of the problems with performance, reliability and delivery. These are ultimately the responsibility of the government. I certainly don't absolve the company of their responsibility, they seem to be doing flat out nothing to make rail travel more attractive. Doubtless there have been some policy choices in their direct control that have made the problems worse, not least with regards to the speed of price rises, which should have been slower, ans a totally botched introduction of Penalty Fares, that ignores their own rules. However, it is less clear exactly what they've done to contribute towards the mess.
How has Northern 'declared war against passengers'? Northern hasn't done anything except sign a contract with DfT. You could argue that Northern by doing so 'declared war' against RMT, but I think that is self-evidently ludicrous. Nobody is being proposed by Northern to lose their job; on the contrary, they have said they intend to increase staffing.
That’s never been acknowledged to my understanding other than Scotrail and RMT pretending they’d compromised by any senior figures in the industry as a reasonable compromise, it’s traditional guard operation with a very minor tweak
That’s never been acknowledged to my understanding other than Scotrail (face saving excercise) and RMT (pretending they’d compromised) by any senior figures in the industry as a reasonable compromise for DOO, it’s simply preserving traditional guard operation with a very minor tweak
I understand it might be the way the industry ultimately decides to go, I’m merely stating that it’s not a compomise , it’s capitulation, let’s not pretend otherwise, all the costs and constraints of traditional guard operation remain
