Interesting and I suspect a stronger shift than the equivalent TfL study will show, although similar trends. I was hoping for modal shift.
Cynic suggests "I have a car and do not want to pay more for travel" from the accompanying survey is the challenge here. Carrots & sticks?
Transport Scotland yesterday published its interim evaluation report on the scrapping of ScotRail peak fares.
Rail journeys are *down*.
In other words: fewer people are using the train, and those lucky few are paying less for their journeys. But everyone else is paying more…
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This has caused me to take a closer look at Stadler's offer as I do not believe they bid for the EL, may of course been ruled out by the tender spec / the year it took place. What I had not noticed before is GA's 745s are single door vs triple door for the Elizabeth line /
ALT Schematics of Class 345 (EL), Class 745 (GA) & Class 777 (MR) - showing that the 345 has three sets of doors per carriage, versus one for the 745 and 1.5 for the 777.
Trains are the wrong height, raised platform would be demolished by the next passing freight train. Raising the platforms only really works in fully segregated sections like the core itself
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I did think Trainline had pulled off a bit of a coup, what with seemingly killing off the GBR ticket engine concept and then acting as the host for Labour to launch its policy today & being praised no less. I was puzzled by the share price though, then spotted a tiny line, oops!
ALT Not remarked on elsewhere in the document. One line in the summary refers to "replacing the current multitudes of platforms"
ALT 11.95% single day fall in Trainline share price
Outside the excitement of rail contracts, Labour does appear to be proposing fundamental reorg into much larger maybe more efficient operations, plus delivering the existing WR reforms. Fiennes did have a BR saying that when "you reorganise, you bleed". Interesting times ahead
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A neat lesson in diplomacy this...
What's the Off-Peak All Day trial doing for patronage and farebox income? And what's the trial's measure of success?
During this week's session, @markruskell asked @AlexHynes of @ScotRail the question 👇
Playing catch up? ow.ly/xRXA50QYvbP
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The shame, the shame, but which of these 298,421 random messages might have something I need to refer to in X years time!
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Look at top four here. This is why there is so little left over for any kind of infrastructure. And why your pension will end up paying. Column coming!
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As a wheelchair user I want this ban extended throughout the UK. I've put my life at risk by having to wheel onto a busy road as pavement was blocked by parked vehicles. I know many disabled people, parents with buggies etc, who have had similar dangerous experiences.
Motorists in Edinburgh face a £100 fine for parking on pavements, as the city becomes the first in Scotland to implement the ban.
Jon had more details on #BBCBreakfast
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Fairly sceptical that someone who currently can have a long weekend will not have that long weekend for the sum of £2, but we may see. Might help spread demand from Thursday (good) at the price of abstraction (possibly unavoidable but not fabulous) thetimes.co.uk/article/98f2a…
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“Why shouldn’t she be able to make that decision?”
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@GaryNHughes I promised to write you a thread on HMT attitudes towards UK Rail from the early ‘80’s and how there are parallels with today’s chaotic system. As a background I’ve included a graph of rail passenger journeys to cover the timespan. It’s always a good indicator. 1/13
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Before the pandemic, just 16 per cent of people used bus, tram or train to get to work in Manchester, 22 per cent in Newcastle and 18 per cent in Birmingham. centreforcities.org/publicat… @CentreforCities
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