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They do this on kingston rounders, even 5 mins will see trains skip 5+ stations
Thank you. That explains it.
As usual the customer is worse off for a change on the railway. It needs a re-think: simple way would be for a fail to call to be double the penalty for a delay.
Make it ten times the penalty for the delay, that might make the TOCs reduce the use of skip stopping when a train is a mere 5 minutes late.
How they hope to encourage passengers back when the taxpayer funding tap is turned down
Make it ten times the penalty for the delay, that might make the TOCs reduce the use of skip stopping when a train is a mere 5 minutes late.
How they hope to encourage passengers back when the taxpayer funding tap is turned down
A punitive regime almost never works. In any case making things more punitive will just result in such financial risks being built into the contract, as is, costing the taxpayers even more.Make it ten times the penalty for the delay, that might make the TOCs reduce the use of skip stopping when a train is a mere 5 minutes late.
How they hope to encourage passengers back when the taxpayer funding tap is turned down
A punitive regime almost never works. In any case making things more punitive will just result in such financial risks being built into the contract, as is, costing the taxpayers even more.
Unfortunately you can often lay the blame at meddling by the politicians' feet. The all-singing-all-dancing new metrics turned out not to be such a wonderful utopia after all. I wonder who could have told them that...
More like those whose mathematics lessons were taught by music teachers.Something dreamt up by a civil servant whose only use of the railways outside London Underground is the rare time they travel for business for some conference?
Oh, come on - you didn't really think that the railways were meant to run for the benefit of the fare and tax paying public, did you?Unfortunately this happens all over the country - punctuality figures are deemed to be far mare important than the convenience of passengers
In the words of BR, that would not be operationally convenientOh, come on - you didn't really think that the railways were meant to run for the benefit of the fare and tax paying public, did you?
Blame our mate for that, J...Something else I've noticed anecdotally is performance seems to be worse since everything started stopping at Longcross. Whereas before you had the 3 minutes' recovery by not stopping, you don't get that and 5' late off Staines seems to be the norm these days.