I didn’t say it is necessarily better. Many of the problems at have with the railways now can be traced directly back to many years of under-investment during public ownership. I mean primarily infrastructural. As an avowed trainophile, I’ll be the first to point out the problems with the current system (notably the really crappy ticketing system), but equally apparent to me is it isn’t going to be magically improved by taking it back to BR, which is what i fear might happen.
Systems are always run for some group. The question is how we make that some group most closely aligned with the users.
Personally i really like the idea of the lines being run by users cooperatives.
