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Don't you think that residents in Cambridge and Manchester would benefit from a national railcard ? By your own admission, those places are already generating the wealth to pay for it.

Not unless the big-wigs and grandes fromages are all moving there as well !

I've no doubt everyone would love me to spend less time posting on RUK, however as a sole wage earner I can assure you that I already find making money and keeping a roof over my head plenty hard enough. The North is full factories and businesses making and providing things that people need. A...

Yes, that might make it easier to source the office accommodation :lol:

Too many cooks spoil the broth !

It seems potentially self-reinforcing. The lack of expenditure outside of the SE is probably a contributing factor to the disparity in wealth generation. The TRU is going some way to alleviate this, but it will not work as well as it could if fares are a barrier. Don't get me wrong I...

It must be frustrating working for the DoT. You come up with all these grand ideas such as abolishing off-peak fares and denying working age people railcard discounts, yet you're hampered from enjoying all of these innovations by being based in a city with world class transportation. I propose...

If I were the PM, I'd be worried about this potential poll-tax on wheels tainting my government. He ought to squash it as soon as possible.

Apologies - I've amended the figure in my quotation. However even you yourself quote figures that show that a person in London has over twice as much spent on them for transport purposes than those of us in the North. The ahem "generous" passenger subsidy per mile needs to be considered in...

Of course you need that direct assistance to those most in need. That's why I roll my eyes when the right wing go on about dismantling the benefits system. However, as I've mentioned on here, cost of living affects more than the very poorest in society, right up to the "just about managing"...

One only has to look at the table below published by the House of Commons library showing identifiable expenditure on transport by region (24/25) to see the real disparity: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0170/ London had £11,747m expenditure. South East...

The OP is "why doesn't Ripon have a train line towards Harrogate or York That's a perfectly acceptable question to ask and the answer comes down to terrible policy decisions in the 1960's. It's worth everyone learning from those decisions so as not to make the same mistakes again.

I'm afraid I disagree with you on all points. I'm not sure why the subsidy level of five years ago is such a magical marker point. If that level of subsidy is so totemic for a national railcard, how come one wasn't introduced then, when subsidy was at that level ? The reality is that the...

No more than any other concrete slab !

Or it could be said that politically cuts to 1980's network were due to political and transport necessities during the 1980's. Had a larger network made it through to the 1980's, those same political and transport necessities would have had the same proportional effect on the larger network...

Indeed. Covid was a good excuse to get rid of costs, in order to fit some "new normal" that turned out to be baloney.

In the old days of course, you might slip on a number two.

It's taken a good couple of hours from my last couple of trips (very pleasurable ones though). In terms of cost of living, I think it needs to be a range of measures. The bus fare schemes and national railcard have their place. As do long term policies such as housing market improvement, which...

I did that about fifteen years ago on this forum. The workings are there to see in the report. Automatic crossings were apparently rolled out to York - Beverly aswell, but they were never installed due to Beeching.

Indeed. We don't want the network falling apart at all. 1787931317 But outside of the South East, we have lower average wages, so the 3.3p difference is already embedded. If we were to level fares across the country, we wouldn't be accounting for income differentials, which wouldn't be fair...