Nick Piggott 🇪🇺Dec 21, 2023
In today's 'the UK is a totally normal country', I got 12 pieces of cardboard for a journey from Bristol to York and back. #trains
Show threadTom RitchfordDec 21, 2023

@nickpiggott

How frustrating.

Up until two weeks ago, I was British but now I'm Dutch.

I can travel anywhere in the Netherlands with this little plastic card and generate no paper. The trains aren't entirely cheap, but of course not as expensive as the UK. Before COVID they were shockingly, obsessively reliable. Now they're just pretty reliable, which is still very good.

Sorry, sorry, not trying to show off, I was trying to agree...

Show threadNick Piggott 🇪🇺

@TomSwirly its an interesting demonstration of how 'privatisation' and 'competition' become detrimental to the core proposition. I hope that other countries (🇩🇪) learn from the mistakes in the UK if they continue to pursue a 'free market' approach to train travel

In short - doesn't work for the consumer, doesn't work for the taxpayer, so who is it working for 🤔

Dec 21, 2023 at 12:12pmWeb