Deepgreen
Established Member
The railway used to be one of the recognised sources of good communications, along with the BBC, etc. No more - the shattering of a cohesive network has brought in a plethora of different communications sources, which are generally not measured parts of the TOCs' financial performance, and which therefore do not warrant spends of more than the minimum, despite the TOCs' robotic claim that "good information is very important to us". The society-wide degradation of communications standards has many causes which are all too evident in the railway - decreasing specific subject knowledge, increased reliance on auto-correct, spell-check and other 'tools', a top-level disinterest in accuracy, the replacement of specialists by generalists and so on. It won't change under the current model, and maybe it is too late to restore it anyway.