Submitted on Saturday 9th July 2016
Rejected on Thursday 21st July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Freeze or reduce Govia Thameslink Railway fares in 2017
Govia have provided increasingly bad service to their customers, cancelling large numbers of trains, reducing lengths of trains, recently implementing an interim timetable slashing ~350 trains a day, forcing customers to stand for whole journeys, rerouting services to avoid paying compensation
see http://www.networkrail.co.uk/about/performance/ for official performance statistics (average public performance measurement reduced from 86.3% in 2015, to 66.8% in 2016), whilst still increasing fares
UK fares are considered to be the worst in Europe, on a value for money ratio. UK fares have rocketed by a reported ~25% in the last 5 years: see http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-versus-europe-commuting-rail-ticket-prices-strikes-2015-8
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government can't require one company to freeze or reduce fares in the way you describe, but it could take other measures. For example, you might like to sign this petition which calls on the Government to make Southern Rail (a Govia franchise) pay compensation to delayed passengers:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/132726
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