Dear reader,
As a regular train user, and having a pass, I am getting
intensively annoyed with the number of times I head
out on a journey, and there are no staff checking or selling
tickets on the trip. Moreover, I feel it makes no economic
sense to run services that make little profit, and the tax
payer has to fork out on the trains that we run.
We do cut bus services that make no profit across the
Principality, but many of these services operate in area’s
where communities are isolated. The bus drivers do check
passes and charge for journeys, they do their job and
these journeys should be maintained. But as for Transport
For Wales, we need to make sure that fares are collected,
so that there isn’t the tax burden that we see at present.
Many stations are un-manned without ticket machines, and
surely having staff to sell tickets creates income for the
trains that operate, more people employed, trains are safer, and
more money to invest in the service?
Yours sincerely,
Karl-James Langford
Gwlad Welsh Parliament candidate
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