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For the first time in AGES I actually had time to do some proper transport journalism again. Which was lovely.
Here's me over on @lonrec talking about ORR data, passenger numbers UK-wide, and what it all says about the value of investing in rail. #transport #london #rail
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2023/the-state-of-rail-breaking-down-the-numbers/
@garius @lonrec Nice read! Interesting to me as an Australian that there's so much complexity in UK rail that arbitrage via split-ticketing is even a thing. Of course we lack quality rail altogether.
As an aside, while the time period of "Post-pandemic" is well understood, I wonder if someone has come up with a more accurate term that covers the current period of no measures in an ongoing pandemic. The nice "business as usual" in the graph was already taken for the Pre-pandemic period though..
@garius Interesting article with some very good points, especially the last part about rail investment not being a zero-sum game.
