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Whilst savings continue to be made and both regional railway services and international railway connections continue to be cut, politicians of every hue insist that more passengers and more freight should be transported by rail. The recipe for that is freight traffic on the roads and competing low-cost airlines in aviation. They separate the management from the rails and the implementation from the provision of services, and hope that private companies will bring lower prices, provide a customer-friendly service and attract more customers. I think that that approach will ultimately fall short of expectations. Their only interest will be in reducing costs by closing down lines, thinning services, increasing charges and discouraging the many loss-making customers.
The Savary and Sterckx reports offer insufficient compensation for Mr Jarzembowski’s liberalisation plans. The Savary report is desperately needed to drive back the technical problems involving cross-border trains, such problems having occurred since electrification. The Sterckx report thrusts aside the possibility of forcing railway companies into making cross-border services more accessible and maintaining them. The only people who are left better off are those with disabilities."@en1
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