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If it was no strings percentage increase it would be accepted no doubt. Government/RDG need to stop playing games with “reforms”, especially as half the problem with train unreliability is their daft management anyway not the workers.

They took away routes from drivers then have the nerve to cancel trains due to shortage of train crew.

Have a Sunday only illness?

Seems like 7 pages of waffle that will be hard to implement or will be implemented unsuccessfully when it hits reality.

Any different to what RDG released Friday?

I’m Sundays outside, coverage is never a problem. Sunday is more reliable than Saturday just less frequency.

Read more like committed Sundays rather than Sundays inside.

What the RDG have released does seem a bit like they are attaching some conditions that kind of happen anyway, won’t be able to be achieved or the TOCs won’t want just to make the problem go away without changing much. But seemingly to the general public and government change has happened...

There is already a disparity in pay between drivers at tocs. So a one size fits all isn’t going to help. Not much movement happens between tocs. Apprenticeships and getting people of the street seems to be the norm now rather than poaching qualified from other tocs.

They(dft etc) should allow a percentage and then becomes up to TOCs and local reps to sort out.

It does read a bit like they don’t already know what goes on. Hopefully it sets a framework so individual TOCs and reps can negotiate. RDG can then pat themselves on the back saying they resolved the dispute.

Basically they are making an assumption to back up a political narrative. Don’t remember being asked why I’m buying a car by any dealership.

It should be much lower going by the price of a barrel. Companies will take the opportunity of duty increase to add a few more pence on a litre for their own pockets.

Probably, they seem to love raising tax and hitting the working class as much as possible. Rising fuel costs increase inflation too.

The 12p fuel duty rise will get people off the roads.

Got half the local brigade it seems now as drivers at my place if that counts.

In regards to tickets, sell them cheap and stack them high. Lumo are running at a profit aren’t they?

Could probably get rid of 50% of that lot and notice no difference. Probably improve efficiency.

DFT probably knocked off for Christmas.

Nothing a bit of tipex wouldn’t sort out.