Six priorities for the new UK prime minister
Stalled trains at Battersea Park in London
The UK Railway Industry Association (RIA) has set out six key priorities for the future of rail, which it is urging new Conservative party leader and de facto prime minister Liz Truss to adopt. Taken together, say the RIA, these priorities would boost economic growth and help answer the government’s economic levelling up agenda; create jobs; and facilitate the UK’s journey towards Net Zero.
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Funding of innovations, yes, but what is an innovation, the Shift, worth Name?
Compare, how global devices, even the on road device, upgrade, for higher load – and lower costs, but within industry, just mantra, now is “more funding”…
When spent for “cementing”, at standards, since long not timely, such is worse than devastating…
(A decisive upgrading, a shift – away from technicalities, no longer timely – is requested.)
“Back to basics” calls for a New Old Railway – a paying railway…
Until a Government of any hue realises that the best way to run railways in the 21st century is to put more electrified track on the ground to provide more routeways & encourage diversification for both passenger & freight traffic, we won’t get very far. More diesel & hydrogen trains are not the answer; other bi or tri-modes will help in the interim to give customers what they need rather than what the TOCs think is most profitable.
Joined-up thinking, partnerships, not-for-profit operations, modal shifts – all have a place in bringing down costs, CO2 production & a better service for the long-suffering British public.