Submitted on Tuesday 5th July 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 19th July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Transfer ownership of Southern Rail to Directly Operated Railways
Southern Rail has run this franchise into the ground through gross incompetence by running deteriorated rolling stock, causing bitterly acrimonious labour relations, cancelling and running late services wantonly and foisting unbelievable excuses on the public such as dishonetly blaming the unions.
Requests to strip the franchise from Southern Rail:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/04/calls-strip-southern-rail-operator-franchise-govia-thameslink
Evidence for public-owned railways:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0155998214000416
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2750031/Public-sector-Directly-Operated-Railways-returns-217m-taxpayer.html
Southern Rail bonuses:
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/southern-rail-bosses-embroiled-in-a-new-bonus-scandal/
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