Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.
The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
The rail service is important for my district.
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.