>One of the reasons that road gets a larger share of funding is that
>in the case of the trucking industry it is a powerful lobby group,and speaks
>with one voice for the whole of the industry across all of the country.Can we
>say the same for rail, I think not.
Is it any surprise?
When you are a government appointee, it takes an enormous amount of
courage to hassle your political masters for funding to improve rail
services.
No wonder Ian Dodd (I think) of the PTC who said that reform of the
rail system has gone as far as it can under a government run and
controlled system. I think his words were just as appropriate to his
political bosses as they were to the unions.
Putting railways on an equal footing with roads must also mean a rail
lobby every bit as powerful as the roads.
This is one very good reason for privitization of all rail services.
Les Brown