So I travel to London every day on the Brighton line and so does my wife. We must pay around 700 per month between us to travel in 2nd class and have to fight for a seat daily inside packed usually un air conditioned trains that on parts of the journey to London the train crawls.
Almost every other day we have problems on our journey due to various signal failures and broken down trains and yet year after year the train fare goes up.
For years I have heard a plethora of politicians bang on about the railways being underfunded for years and investment is needed, hence why fares need to be increased. I dont however seem to see any improvements. Therefore where does all the money go? Are we paying for some chairmans fat payrise each year? They go on about constant upgrades and improvements going on, but when will we see them? 20 years time?
Countries like Germany seem to run a perfect system with no delays as the trains seem to be in a worse state than ours..
Posting this whilst yet again we are sat outside a station on a red light.
Almost every other day we have problems on our journey due to various signal failures and broken down trains and yet year after year the train fare goes up.
For years I have heard a plethora of politicians bang on about the railways being underfunded for years and investment is needed, hence why fares need to be increased. I dont however seem to see any improvements. Therefore where does all the money go? Are we paying for some chairmans fat payrise each year? They go on about constant upgrades and improvements going on, but when will we see them? 20 years time?
Countries like Germany seem to run a perfect system with no delays as the trains seem to be in a worse state than ours..
Posting this whilst yet again we are sat outside a station on a red light.