Submitted on Wednesday 15th August 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To reconsider the West Coast Mainline franchise award
The announcement today that Virgin Rail are not to be awarded the renewal of the West Coast Mainline franchise flies in the face of all common sense.
It cannot be right that the decision to award the franchise is so significantly influenced by the net payment the train operator says it will pay to the Government. Surely other factors are just as, if not more, important, namely reliability, value for money and customer satisfaction; if so then the present operator, Virgin Rail, must rank higher than the proposed new operator.
We the undersigned call upon the Department for Transport to suspend the award and to reconsider the decision to move the franchise away from Virgin Rail, taking into account the views of existing users of the service.
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