What next for the UK's deserted public transport network? [The Guardian]





Date: 27/06/2020

Train and bus firms urgently need to find a route back to viability amid the Covid-19 crisis. Since the fall of Mussolini, few politicians can have declared quite so unselfconsciously as Grant Shapps that: ^I just want to make the trains run on time.^ But, as the transport secretary ruefully told MPs this week: ^I didn^t expect to see that happen by having a fraction of people using it.^ More than 98% of services ran punctually in April, underscoring the old rail industry joke that it would all work fine if it wasn^t for the passengers. Yet the trains are only continuing to run due to an extraordinary level of subsidy after coronavirus forced most of the population to stay home.


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