Rail privatisation has finally run its course and almost certainly failed
Anne Johnstone is spot on with her analysis of the rail privatisation fiasco ("What will it take to get railways back on track?", The Herald, August 30).
Anne Johnstone is spot on with her analysis of the rail privatisation fiasco (\"What will it take to get railways back on track?\", The Herald, August 30).
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Clearly, the rail privatisation experiment has run its course and failed almost completely. Subsidies have doubled along with costs and productivity has not improved as it should, hence the intervention of the McNulty review to spell out what the private sector should have done, but didn't. The whole mess is reminiscent of the emperor's new clothes, where no-one in Government is daring to say that privatisation has failed, and failed miserably.
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Rail privatisation has finally run its course and almost certainly failed
Anne Johnstone is spot on with her analysis of the rail privatisation fiasco ("What will it take to get railways back on track?", The Herald, August 30).
Clearly, the rail privatisation experiment has run its course and failed almost completely. Subsidies have doubled along with costs and productivity has not improved as it should, hence the intervention of the McNulty review to spell out what the private sector should have done, but didn't. The whole mess is reminiscent of the emperor's new clothes, where no-one in Government is daring to say that privatisation has failed, and failed miserably.
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