Scottish Greens 'go Forth' with sound ideas and proposals

摘要

THE COVID crisis in the UK has shown how important it is to have a plan, although this isn't news to those wanting to see improvements in the rail industry - pretty much every problem the railways in Britain are facing now results from the lack of any attempt by government to create a long-term plan.This is for all sorts of reasons, but a lack of interest in detailed policy at party level is certainly a contributing factor. Indeed, not a single national party (at least in recent memory) has published their plan for what the railways should look like (physically, not just organisationally) in the future.But with the recent publication of the Scottish Green Party's Rail for All report {RAIL 923), this is no longer true.It is both a bold and technically literate document that hopefully sets in motion a little more interest from the major parties in setting out practical change for the railway industry, rather than repeating slogans without substance ("reversing Beeching" and "nationalise it" being common offenders).