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| |  Friday, 17 January, 2003, 11:19 GMTE-mail of the week: rail cuts  Cutting trains will drive people on to the roads On Thursday we reported that more than a hundred rail services a day across the UK are to be cut in an attempt to ease congestion on the Network. Some services will run less frequently - and some will be scrapped altogether, in a move which is apparently designed to make the trains run on time on some of Britain's most overcrowded routes. This generated a lot of e-mails including this from Peter Willetts in Yorkshire.
'Let's cut hundreds of trains then the others might run on time'. Do they have a brain between them? Cutting trains will drive passengers AWAY from the railways and onto the roads! It won't make the few trains that are left run on time. This proposal is as bad as the company who put up prices because too many people were using their trains. They should be INCREASING the amount of trains NOT reducing them. If theses trains are running late when the new timetable comes out why don't they just increase the journey time of those trains, THEN if it's late it will be on time! otherwise it will be early | |
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It's unbelievable, just what kind of idiots are in the Strategic Rail Authority. 
