We pay more on our side of the tracks
Daily Telegraph article below, which was flagged up to me by the RMT Bristol branch e-newsletter.
Apparently Britons pay more per mile for their rail journeys than anyone else in Europe. Whereas £10 will buy you just 38 miles on the train in the UK, it'll buy you 3 times that in France, 200 miles in Italy and 100 miles in Spain.
On my way to Glasgow at the moment on 'Branson Rail' so will be keeping an eye on the 'meter'!
posted by Paul @ Thursday, January 26, 2006
4 Comments:
glad to hear youve gone by train paul, did the tuc give you an incentive to leave the car at home.
i am surprised you havent finished the michael moorcock book with a 4 hr journey. or were you too busy reading the telegraph?
Only incentive is that its a bit easier to work - don't fancy driving up the M6 with lap-top, phone, papers (of, and the Daily Telegraph of course!) at 85mph...
ps - be good if you could leave your name next time, ta, P.
i am absolutely amazed at your vigour. you work all day helping the diminishing few (tu members-halved in 10 years under labour!!), youve got more air miles than judith chalmers - prague one week, yarnfield the next.
wife & kids to deal with and importantly you've still got time to answer the tripe comments that me and mrs.k leave you in response to your tripe!
yours
kev
Never been to Prague but am going to Yarnfield (as you obviously know) tommorow...
Keep the tripe coming and so will I!
Ps check those membership figures Kev - TUC membership stood at over 12.5m in 79, fell to around 6.8m by 97, and is now around 6.5m.
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