I AM disappointed that the moderately successful innovation of scrapping peak rail fares has ended because there was not a big enough “modal shift” from private car travel to enable the change to be self-financing.
As ever we get the carping and cavilling from such as the Tories, Greens and rail unions. And, of course, the worst carpers are the media.
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If maintaining the off-peak fares is desirable – and I think it is – why are these carpers not engaging constructively to develop ways of continuing? They know that the Scottish Government has a fixed budget, they know the effect of 14 years of austerity on all public services and it seems that despite the “no austerity” pledge from Labour, Reeves’s crackpot economic paradigm is going to continue with austerity.
There are different economic paradigms. Why are the carpers and cavillers not proposing that these be adopted?
Alasdair Macdonald
Glasgow
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