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In a big relief to #railway #passengers, the Railways has announced a #reduction in #ticket #prices to pre-covid levels. This move aims to provide financial relief to daily #commuters, with prices for #PassengerTrains dropping by approximately 40-50 per cent.

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67 per cent of passengers say they are satisfied with the value for money of their bus fare. Take a look at the passenger satisfaction results in our Your Bus Journey survey: https://ow.ly/gmha50QVYp9 #YourBusJourney

BLOG: One of the curses of working for “the railway” is that everyone has an opinion, and often those opinions are wildly contradictory. The news this month is a great example of why that is. ?? In the headlines recently we’ve had operator LNER trialling simpler fares, we’ve had the draft railway bill promising the creation of a new body to act as a guiding mind with clear accountability, and this week we’ve had two “open access” announcements for new services, one of which has been approved (Stirling to Euston) by the regulator, and one of which is subject to approval (Wrexham to Euston). ??? The latter put out some (really good) PR with a positive quote from the rail minister, which said the Government is keen on on-rail competition to drive up standards and offer new connections. I can see why the Government would want to trial new services at no risk to the taxpayer but I’m also interested in how that works with simpler fares. ??? If we want simpler fares at the same time as we offer passengers on-rail competition, then the future could look like multiple operators on the same line offering the same tickets with the same restrictions, and you just choose whatever operator you prefer. Or if we ditch that, you can have true competition, with a panoply of different fares and ticket options to suit all pockets. On some lines, such as Newcastle to Edinburgh, we now have both of those systems at the same time and the fares system there is bananas. Who is accountable for that? Will the new body be able to fix it? FWIW my view is that people will always buy advance named-train tickets if they’re cheap enough, but they will also write to their MP when they get on the wrong train or their on-rail competitor doesn’t put ticket acceptance in place if their train breaks down. Somebody needs to make a call what railway we want and it’s up to us in the industry to do that. What’s your thoughts? APEX or Open Return? Let me know below… ? Not written with AI. #trains #railways #tickets #fares

CrossCountry Trains have announced a reduction in service over the Easter period. If you are travelling with them then please re-check your journey. My understanding is that they are short of crew, particularly in Birmingham, which is the hub of their operation. Engineering work leading to longer journey times has not helped. The regular #Newcastle/#Doncaster/#Sheffield/#Birmingham/#Reading service has been cut almost completely to ensure that the #Plymouth/#Sheffield/#Edinburgh service can run. Some trains released will give extra coaches on some services. Ben Simkin (XC Regional MD) phoned me yesterday to explain what was happening and why. I agreed with him that it was better to cancel trains well in advance to give certainty, rather than to do what Trans-Pennine Express did and just P cancel trains the night before. However I also said that there would now be an expectation that a robust recovery plan was put in place, so that this did not keep recurring (this is not the first time we have seen holiday season XC cancellations) and stakeholders would expect to hear what that plan was. I need to make the point that XC did not just issue a press release. A phone call from a senior person was appreciated. On the ground, the day to day passenger experience remains poor with standing room only the norm on some services. ?? https://lnkd.in/gjAvw86

I am heading to the airport, returning from vacation. Returned my rental car and jump the tram to the station. On the tram, I get an alert from the airline that the flight was delayed a week. Now, the airline will have to compensate me for lodging, meals, and transportation. Now, imagine I am a driver, heading to a depot, I have pulled a good order chassis and heading to get a box mounted. Dispatch calls and said the steamship line delayed the vessel a week. Driver has already came to work, pre-trip his unit, pulled a chassis from the rail and drove to the depot. Dispatch has no ability to find him another load now, so his day is done having wasted his time, energy, and fuel. And the kicker, he will get no compensation for this last second delay. How, as an industry, to we accept these things? Should the SSL not be responsible for a TONU or a Dry Run for their inability to stick to the schedule? And, if delay is port related, cant the SSL push those expenses back to the port? We claim drivers are our most valuable asset, yet we treat them like crap. We grade their performance, but heaven forbid we grade the performance of others - just the drivers. #makeitmakesense #transportation #drayage

?????? Amidst airline delays and interstate gridlock, travelers are taking advantage of the less frenetic pace of the rails, according to a piece on Linkedin News. Amtrak ridership is up 18 percent from last year, and the company is seizing the moment to persuade Americans to embrace train travel. It's investing in new rail lines like the Borealis, which connects Chicago to Minneapolis-St. Paul, and is introducing faster Airo trains along the Northeast Corridor and other routes, in a bid to double ridership by 2040. Private providers are popping up too. Brightline has routes between Miami and Orlando and is planning high-speed service between Las Vegas and L.A. See more on LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gSR-UiWA. #Trains #NoPlanes #TransportationNews #HarringtonLimousineService #LuxuryGroundTransportation

The fees for checking luggage are increasing and some are even more if you wait until you get to the airport to take care of them. I completely understand why so many people are moving to carry-on only. However, I also get frustrated at the lack of adequate bin space and bins that are hard to reach given my 5'3" height, not to mention the delays in deplaning as people struggle to retrieve bags against the masses crowding the aisle. What are your thoughts? Are you already in the carry-on only crowd? Will these increased fees push you in that direction? I would love to have your input and any tried-and-true tips to make the transition to carry-on only easier for those of us who haven't made that leap yet.

Q: How do #PublicTransportation agencies reduce dwell times at stops & stations??? A: By enabling passengers to pay fares/validate tickets on the platform before a #MassTransit vehicle arrives. ?? More about minimizing delays/optimizing operations. ?? https://hid.link/J7p

MORE FLEXSYDBLE The Australian Government has announced conditional easing of strict limits on the number of flights at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD), the nation’s busiest air hub, to help airlines recover from delays caused by severe weather disruptions or other critical events. The change means that during major upheavals, an ironclad restriction of 80 flights per hour will be upped to 85 for a maximum of two hours per day to help airlines to dispatch delayed aircraft. Inner-city SYD has long been governed by the 80 per hour cap to help limit the impact of aircraft noise on local communities. Complicating matters, the caps are administered on a ‘rolling hour,’ activated every 15 minutes, which limits Sydney's aircraft movements to 20 every quarter hour. It's effectively a cap within a cap. This hard-and-fast rule means flights delayed in Sydney must wait until the next 15 minute window once the limit of 20 flights is reached, to prevent the quarter-hourly quota from being exceeded, even if their rescheduling doesn’t breach the total daily limits on movements. The inflexibility of the rules has frequently prevented airlines from recovering their schedules, particularly after major weather or technical delays, creating knock-on disruptions around the national network, with aircraft and crew delays impacting onward services, sometimes for a day or even more, and delayed departing passengers left to sit it out in Sydney. Although limited, the temporary exemption enabling up to 85 flight movements per hour will provide some relief for airlines, passengers and freight customers by enabling flexibility within the daily limit when major disruptions occur. However, the government pointedly has ruled out any dilution of or exemption from the SYD operating curfew, which bans most flights between 11pm and 6am, and has long been a political landmine for all governing parties, despite enormous generational reductions in aircraft noise and noise abatement techniques in the air and on the ground. Communities surrounding Sydney Airport or located beneath its flight paths are vocal and unforgiving on the issue of aircraft noise, with one of the closest political consitutencies that of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Whatever else changes, the curfew won't. #sydneyairport #flightcaps #curfew #aircraftnoise #newrules #syd