Is proceeding slowly. For some reason the government has not boasted of their progress. Perhaps they do not want to admit that Corbyn was right.
The country needs a properly integrated transport system. Somebody is going to have to pull together all the frayed and tangled threads and weave them together.
"Almost 40 per cent of passenger mainline rail travel in Britain is now by trains directly controlled by the state, after ministers were forced to bail out privatised operators as they ran into trouble in recent years, according to an FT analysis of official data.
Emergency measures introduced in 2020 at the start of the pandemic have also ripped up the franchising model that lay at the heart of rail privatisation and was designed to encourage operators to maximise revenues in return for a slice of any profits.
It has left ministers and civil servants responsible for the financial and operational decisions of all rail operators, whether or not they have been renationalised. Train companies are reduced to contractors running services to a timetable determined in Whitehall.
“This can’t possibly be a sustainable way of managing the rail system going forward,” said Andrew Haines, boss of Network Rail, the state-owned infrastructure body, who also heads up the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT), a new interim public organisation set up in 2021 to bring management of train and track back under one roof."
FT.com
The country needs a properly integrated transport system. Somebody is going to have to pull together all the frayed and tangled threads and weave them together.
"Almost 40 per cent of passenger mainline rail travel in Britain is now by trains directly controlled by the state, after ministers were forced to bail out privatised operators as they ran into trouble in recent years, according to an FT analysis of official data.
Emergency measures introduced in 2020 at the start of the pandemic have also ripped up the franchising model that lay at the heart of rail privatisation and was designed to encourage operators to maximise revenues in return for a slice of any profits.
It has left ministers and civil servants responsible for the financial and operational decisions of all rail operators, whether or not they have been renationalised. Train companies are reduced to contractors running services to a timetable determined in Whitehall.
“This can’t possibly be a sustainable way of managing the rail system going forward,” said Andrew Haines, boss of Network Rail, the state-owned infrastructure body, who also heads up the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT), a new interim public organisation set up in 2021 to bring management of train and track back under one roof."
FT.com
