Train tickets in England and Wales cost 4.6 per cent more than they did last week. After I wrote about the rise, Michelle Hockley was prompted to ask: “Why a huge hike in prices when we claim we want to curb traffic pollution and protect the environment?”
Britain is not alone in having some very high fares. Nor are we unique in suffering chronically unreliable trains. And other countries also subsidise their railways to the tune of billions of pounds each year. But no other nation combines all three characteristics quite like the UK.
