Super-Bad Franchise: Fewer Staff, Public Safety at Risk
The new Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern super-franchise risks safety and threatens accessibility. Guards could be axed, stations de-staffed, and train repair staff lost. Profits will support French state railways while UK passengers and tax payers lose out.
A new directive coming out of the EC could impose privatisation on rail services in every EU state. This will make it impossible for any UK government to change our failed privatised model and run things differently. We need to take action to stop these new regulations
East Coast Main Line is publicly owned and operated, investing profits back into the service, which benefits passengers and taxpayers alike. The government wants to sell it off in a needless, irresponsible privatisation.
Boris Johnson is helping George Osborne take an axe to London transport, closing ticket offices and cutting tube staff and guards. We know passengers want properly staffed services. It's time the Mayor listened to London’s travelling public.
