Weird feeling, huh?

That is incredibly positive! Hope to see it followed through. Local control of decisions is extremely important.

Requires them to give power! Unfortunately it'll take a
Chancellor with the political will and mandate, which Reeves lacks.

Only with fiscal levers at the local level will it improve meaningfully!

Lack of long-term planning was a key theme in my research and a central reason Metro Vancouver has the solid base it does, whereas Greater Manchester is still building that foundation.

Excellent multi-use of tech then! Brilliant

A good step to be sure, but the best approach would be to bite the fiscal bullet and just buy (or nationalise) the ROSCOs. They shouldn't exist. The operator, be that private or not, should own its rolling stock.

That's awesome! is it for driver information only?

It's tough! When I get in that way I try to remember who we are advocating for and that the despair and apathy is what they are aiming for.

The industry, advocates and users alike should watch closely, how with this new blemish on the political leadership of DfT plays out in the longer term, especially with Hendy beginning to come out of the woodwork and duck questions about his actions as NR head towards @garethdennis.bsky.social.

Her replacement, @heidialexander.bsky.social, has big shoes to fill, not just with the 'nationalisation' of rail but with the arguably more important task of constructing and implementing the Integrated National Transport Strategy that Haigh announced the day before (!) she resigned.

Well have I got a dissertation for this! Will be listening!