Guest blog by Jonathan TylerPassenger Transport Networks, YorkIt is time to paint a vision of the public transport that Britain needs – and to outline its principles. Private companies pursue their self-interested priorities and the public loses out (with scant evidence that competition has compensated for this). And despite earnest references to the public interest and the creation of a coherent public transport network the Government and the Great British Railways [GBR] - the new public coordinating body - have been captured by the private sector. GBR is taking an age to present a strategic plan, and both it and an ideologically-driven government seem uninterested in promoting any form of public debate about a vision for public transport. All who care about our environment (and even survival) and about socially-equitable public services should unite in a great campaign to reshape public transport for every citizen.

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2023 16:11 UTC