Silverlinky
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Moderator Note Posts #1 - #7 originally in this thread:
Same for the rail unions who put up all their scare stories about a surge of passengers that would overwhelm the railway and put their members lives at risk...they were even threatening strike action as the call from the Government for people to return to work was coming a week earlier than they had thought it was.
How did that work out? Any unmanageable surge in passengers yet? Any "chaos on the network" yet? Any spike in staff sickness?..... I thought not!
TOCs: scrap 2m rule, drop 'avoid public transport' message, Govt should fund rail until Sept 2021
TOCs are asking the government to relax the 2m social distancing rule for trains to increase capacity, and are rightly telling the government that the 'avoid public transport' message needs to be dropped as it's doing severe long term damage to public confidence in travelling by public...
www.railforums.co.uk
Same for the rail unions who put up all their scare stories about a surge of passengers that would overwhelm the railway and put their members lives at risk...they were even threatening strike action as the call from the Government for people to return to work was coming a week earlier than they had thought it was.
How did that work out? Any unmanageable surge in passengers yet? Any "chaos on the network" yet? Any spike in staff sickness?..... I thought not!
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