The reality of price rises? Wow you think people who are used to buying train tickets need a wake up call? I always knew you were bitter about no longer being young, but this is insulting on a new level. You have no right to criticise someone's hobby, and if you don't like other people getting cheaper tickets than you, I suggest you don't travel by rail. Are you equally pleased when the price of sports spectating goes up, such that people can get a 'wake up call' to the 'realities of life'? What about when there's a sale on that offers fares at 1/2 or 1/4 of the average railcard fare (such as York to London for £5). When that ends, do you welcome everyone back into the' normal world' of never being able to afford to travel anywhere? Travel should be cheap, sustainable and accessible to all. Good luck finding some way of doing that that isn't a train or a bus - and lots of journeys by bus are utterly impractical.
Anyway there is a slim chance I won't be an unemployed 'out-of-touch' (which of us is out of touch?) failure who lives with their mother when this happens several years hence. Slim.
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I've not criticised anyone's hobby, I'm just suggesting that people need to accept the need to make compromises! And yes if people have been travelling by train on the cheap for several years after finishing Uni including lording it up in 1st class then yes I don't think a "wake up call" is a bad thing at all!