Regular readers of this website may have occasionally seen me ranting about public transport once or twice before. As my long-suffering friends and family will tell you it is a subject area I can drone on about endlessly.
As a regular Merseyrail user, it is often this particular network that forms the basis of my musings. In recent times you may have seen me sounding off about the Victorian-era ticketing system that means people cannot tap in and out with their cards for their train journeys and how people can get fined despite buying tickets online through third parties as they cannot produce a paper ticket.
That remains an infuriating state of affairs for the main rail system in one of the most important city regions in the country. But I have previously cut Merseyrail some slack because I have generally always found it to be a pretty reliable service. Unfortunately, that slack is getting harder to locate at the moment.
