“Rail fare increases could breach competition law if passengers are left carrying an excessive share of the cost of running the railways, the industry regulator warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Wales’s disability rights commissioner is taking legal advice on whether the absence of a lift at a rail station’s £5.5m new platform breaks the law.”
BBC News, 19th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain’s worst-performing train company tried to silence the official passenger watchdog by threatening to sue it for libel for making a complaint about its poor performance.”
The Times, 13th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Network Rail is to be fined £2.4 million for failing to complete a massive resignalling scheme on time, which resulted in long delays and severe overcrowding for thousands of passengers over several months.”
The Times, 31st July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Metronet Rail, the main private contractor on the London Underground, could face administration after an arbiter on Monday awarded it only a small proportion of the emergency funding it had sought for the next year.”
Financial Times, 16th July 2007
Source: www.ft.com
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