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SNP all-change on trains



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Gordon Casely (Letters, 30 April) is concerned about the quality of trains provided by First ScotRail on long-distance routes and the company's complacent response to questions on the subject.
FirstGroup (annual turnover £3.7 billion) probably could not care less, as the SNP administration has extended its ScotRail franchise to 2014. (It had been due to expire in 2011.) Odd, this, from a party that, when in opposition, said: "It's time to take our train network back into public hands. This will remove the profit element and allow all our money to be used to maintain and enhance the network instead of disappearing into the pockets of shareholders."

Putting taxpayers' money into private pockets has now apparently become more important than public ownership to the SNP.

MICHAEL DENHOLM

Yellowcraig

Dunbar, East Lothian





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  • Last Updated: 12 May 2008 8:16 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Miss H,

13/05/2008 09:59:39
Or perhaps they extended the franchise because they were a bit worried by the genius of Glasgow’s Labour Council in suggesting that current rail capacity could cope with the additional demand during the 2014 Commonwealth Games because the Games will be on ‘during the school holidays’.

That’s my theory anyway.
2

Alastair the First,

13/05/2008 12:11:24
Was the decison to extend the Scotrail franchise not started by Labour and the Lib Dems prior to the election? I'm sure this was confirmed at a recent FMQs.
3

G,

dundy 13/05/2008 13:00:35
Alastair

What typical SNPite thought processes....
Either the SNP wanted to and intended to change the franchise or they did not. They cannot blame the current situation on others AND say that it should be changed....Action please....
And how can a decision be started!!!!!!
4

Duncan in Edinburgh,

13/05/2008 13:43:10
#3 It's extraordinary isn't it. Salmond is untouchable, everything He does is Good, thou shalt not say anything that might show him up as a smug, dangerous, self-serving hypocrite.
5

Steve,

Bo'ness 13/05/2008 16:36:21
4
Oh no, not you again.
Still trying to convince people that scrapping the bridge tolls has increased delays?
6

Duncan in Edinburgh,

13/05/2008 22:37:13
#5 No need to try, I've been caught in them on numerous occasions, they've even been reported in these august pages. I assume you haven't been affected, but your personal experience does not translate into the universal experience. I was right.

I assume you have no opinion on the SNP's trains U-turn?

 

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