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IhateFGW
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Hello I'm writing because I was reading back over my blog, and found a message from More Train Less Strain asking for a delivery of "I Hate First Great Western" badges. The badges have now been available for a while, but I'd forgotten your request. So, how many would you like, who should I send them to, and is there anyone else visiting this forum that would like one? Please send your requests to IhateFGW@yahoo.co.uk, including your name and address, or see my blog for more information www.ihatefirstgreatwestern.blogspot.com. I've had a good response so far, with badges being sent out to disgruntled commuters across the network, from Maidenhead to Penzance, but I need more support. Please request a badge and wear it with pride. Many thanks Helen (I Hate FGW) |
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Graham Ellis
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Helen, I'm going to email the MTLS folks and let them know about your post / offer ... they're actually the folks concerned with the next service across - West Wiltshire to Bristol.
There are heavy commuter flows from West Wiltshire to both Bristol and Swindon. From Bradford on Avon, the main flow is to Bristol but from the larger town of Melksham the larger flow is the other way to Swindon. "MTLS" have been using fare strikes and so on to push their protest against overcrowded trains, and your badges may be excellent for them; for us on the West Wilts to Swindon service where we have no trains at the peak times any more and wearing badges on the bus (journey time 95 minutes v 25 by train) or in our cars isn't going to achieve much.
By the way ... I don't HATE FGW. I have sympathy for them - and for the DfT officials and for the county council. All three organisations are, to a greater or lesser extent, victims of the system that doesn't prioritise appropriate service levels but rather looks on shareholder profit, treasury income, and keeping MPs in seats as its main priorities. We should look to work with them and help them come up with the right service for the corridor in spite of the system.
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tramway
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Even recogonising a very flawed system, I have very little sympathy with First Group corporate arrogance, they didn't have to bid that amount, which has left them with a huge mountain to climb to restore any semblance of passenger (and public) confidence. Not the best corporate governance standards I've come across.
Neither do the words of Tom Harris that he 'will keep an eye on First' do anything to make me believe that transport by rail in West Wilts is going to improve for a very long time.
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Graham Ellis
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Rail Minister Tom Harris also said Bristol Evening Post article written after the opening of the new platform at Bristol Parkway):
"We have already committed to providing 1,000 new carriages across the country, to be used where they are most needed."
Surely one of them is most needed from Swindon to West Wilts and Salisbury, isn't it? Or at least place the new carriages elsewhere and cascade an older one that's already had its teething troubles down to us ....
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