You’re right, but who is supposed to fix this? So many people saying government has no business running railways (yes, including Mr Williams) but if we leave running things to the numerous operator things like this happen, and like you say, more so with buses... all very self serving on the part of the operator really.I see the politics is alive and well. Because he’s not your preferred sort of politician. Or funded by those you support.
If he’s had a ‘mare, he’s had a moan. Same as most of us do. Social media lets you do it. The narrow connections are frustrating. Many operators do it. Some do it deliberately to prevent people train hopping (SWT/SWR do it with surbiton trains, holding trains back/not unlocking doors/allowing the stoppers to leave/retiming trains just as the faster trains out of WAT arrive). I do get it. But it remains frustrating.
It’s actually worse when you see bus operators allowed to run services that deliberately miss train connections - they are after the subsidy, not the passengers.... and that happens a lot.
Better integration and planning needs more attention, not throwing money at people when it all goes wrong! But that presumably would require more input from government, not less.
Anyway, regarding Mr Freeman, his department made the rules that created the situation, no point him moaning about it now! Do something positive instead of using ****ter to whine all the time. You’re in government, luckily enough in the DfT, go fix it