📈 Today rail fares rise by 4.6%.
✈️ Rail trips are on average twice as expensive as domestic flights.
🚆 We could tax air travel fairly, raising billions to invest in our railways and bring down fares, making the green option the easiest and cheapest option.
✈️ Rail trips are on average twice as expensive as domestic flights.
🚆 We could tax air travel fairly, raising billions to invest in our railways and bring down fares, making the green option the easiest and cheapest option.
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Rail fare increases must be capped at 2% to encourage rail use and to keep inflation down.
Still hoping for @greenparty.org.uk @adrianramsay.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social
to ask the government and Reform UK if they support Musk’s Mars fantasy and Musk claiming Mars as a free planet outside Earth jurisdiction.
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While we push for nationalisation, we should also support those looking for innovative ways to bring rail services into the hands of the people 💚
They're opening new connections based on community-driven rather than profit-driven needs.
the only way for an OAO to get DfT approval is if they provide a business case for profit-seeking.
If so, fully agree, but I'm an advocate for not waiting for government policy to drive change, and putting as many community-owned cats among the capitalist pigeons as possible.
a better example of railways getting better governance would be the bee network taking over their loca rail franchise services.
Subsidise it, or tax the alternatives, but public transport needs to be cheaper.
Drivers are heavily subsidised. 25% of car trips are less than 1 mile.
Less than a mile.
Clearly, driving is much too cheap.
Italy just 500m.
Gov has always set most fares & thinks passengers not taxpayers should pay for more capacity. But petrol taxes don’t rise.
All franchises ended 2020.