ladydsm
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On the London news tonight if the Torys win the election Boris Johnson will get the power as London mayor to pick and choose who gets the london rail franchises and to determine fares to work with The underground and buses.
On the London news tonight if the Torys win the election Boris Johnson will get the power as London mayor to pick and choose who gets the london rail franchises and to determine fares to work with The underground and buses.
Ah, so he'd basically be the new manager of Network SouthEast then
Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying, I cannot ever see how that would work in the current system. Take the Coventry-Birmingham-Wolverhampton corridor - if memory serves there are 4 TOCs that call at stations through the route (5 if you include W&S) plus freight passing through. Yes VirginTrains have the current monopoly (which will disappear during renewal time). I too don't know how they work out the timetabling but they must do somehow to accomodate everyone?
Bring back network southeast have a training school at waterloo
Great idea but then it wouldn't actually be a franchise.
Indeed, so revolutionary that New Labour don't seem to understand it.Nope, it'd be a public service! Quite revolutionary eh?
Does anyone know what the eight franchises suggested by the Adam Smith Institute were? They were the ones who came up with the franchising idea, the Major government created 20 franchises so they could pay less subsidy and gain more from premiums.