About this episode

The episode discusses the UK's Transport Select Committee report on rail investment and the potential to end the boom and bust cycle in the rail industry.

Back at the start of February, the UK's Transport Select Committee published its report into rail investment pipelines and how to end the boom and bust cycle that double prices and delays improvements... But is the report any good? Does it propose any useful solutions? Will government have any interest in doing anything it suggests? It's a classic page-turn, and you can grab the report yourself, here: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/8739/rail-investment-pipelines-ending-boom-and-bust/publications/ Support #Railnatter at https://patreon.com/garethdennis. Merch at https://merch.railnatter.uk. Join in the discussion at https://discord.railnatter.uk. You can also buy my book #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture: https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways

People in this episode

Host: Gareth Dennis

Topics covered

• rail investment
• boom and bust cycle
• government interest
• transport policy
• UK rail system

Keywords

• rail investment
• boom and bust
• Transport Select Committee
• UK rail
• government policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UK's Transport Select Committee, Patreon, Discord, merch.railnatter.uk

Products: #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture

Places: Britain

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