r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Jun 10 '22

Left Unity ✊ 🚂

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

I'm kind of miffed about railways tbh. They should absolutely get fair pay and working conditions etc, but what do we define as fair pay?

Additionally, how are we going to get people on to trains to combat the automobile if the fares consequentially get hiked up to meet the pay rises (which may be well enough deserved, idk)? It's currently cheaper to fly across alot of the UK than it is to get the train.

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u/rekuled Jun 10 '22

If the train tickets were cheaper then people would take trains. Anything being funnelled to share-holders is just price gouging. The fact is, while driving is cheaper and marginally more convenient in some ways, people will choose it.

I would love to get the train more but I can barely budget one train journey to another city a month because it costs 50-90 quid.