Tom Haines-Doran, "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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What Was Surprising About the Railways?
I think sometimes the railways get too much of a focus in terms of the overall pitch. So many more people use the buses as compared to trains. The situation with buses is even worse than it is on the railways. And something like 70% of the bus routes in England have been cut in the past 10 years. But we do see new movements around public control that have been quite successful, one of them being a greater Manchester. There are similar movements happening in Yorkshire and in Scotland too. It's not just we can't just narrowly think about the railway. So it has to be a broader discussion, which includes other forms of public transport too. To bring different types of communities, which
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