Public Transport - yet another day, yet another 'committee'

[Confuseous]

So although the operators are regulated, the Govt really can’t control them where it matters. The Govt can’t make them do national service, it can’t make them operate buses or trains if it doesn’t make money for them, it can’t even control how much their CEO’s should be paid.

Without genuine competition to create truly lower prices, the only thing the committee can do is come up with a “framework” to decide whether foreigners should pay more than locals or senior citizens should pay more than students, etc.

All they’ll be able to come up with is “schemes” to benefit one group of users over another, or “rebates” to encourage long rides vs short rides, or incentives to continue journeys within the same public transport operator, etc.

But the real issues– like whether public transport should be nationalized, whether the market should be dominated by big corporates, etc will never be discussed.

- http://politicalwritings.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/another-day-another-committee/

 

[tanwahp]

These committees operate on the present problematic system. That is why change will not come.