Submitted on Sunday 19th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 29th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Freeze annual rail season tickets until non-essential travel is allowed again
We are calling on the government (department for transport) to freeze annual rail season tickets during the Coronavirus lockdown.
Current refund policies offered by rail companies such as Thameslink leave commuters thousands of pounds out of pocket.
At a time where non-essential travel is discouraged / banned and commuters are taking pay cuts / being furloughed to help businesses survive, it seems highly inappropriate that those same individuals should lose thousands of pounds through an unfair annual season ticket refund scheme.
Annual season tickets should be frozen to give people peace of mind. Annual season ticket holders should not be punished financially during this crisis.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about freezing tickets would be a decision for individual rail operators, not the UK Government or Parliament.
We have published a petition calling for the Government to fund full refunds for season tickets, which you may wish to sign instead:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312269
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