Railway executives at Network Rail, the government-administered infrastructure agency responsible for operating 20,000 miles of train track across Britain, have come under scrutiny for their astonishing choice to fly rather than take trains for their domestic travel needs. It has long been known that the organisation used domestic flights, but the extent of their use […]
It’s not just that when you add the time getting to and from airports, getting on and off the planes, and the time lost that could have been used to work, this argument does not stack up. These people are responsible for the rail services the rest of us have to put up with. There’s zero incentive for them to make the trains cheaper or more reliable if they’re allowed to fly whenever they feel like it.
Same for every politician. They should have to suffer what they put the rest of us through. Incentives, innit.