A survey found more than three quarters of people in Yorkshire and the Humber want to see politics taken out of the day-to-day running of railways.
The survey looked at how people think train services need to change whilst the Government carries out an independently chaired review into the future of Britain’s railway.
64% think there needs to be once-in-a-generation reform of the railway to help the country succeed in the coming decades ahead.
While 68% want more competition on the long-distance rail routes serving the region and 84% want to see new contracts for train services that target companies, instead of tightly specified agreements with government.
Earlier the rail industry put forward ideas for the on-going government review, from tough targets on mass-commuter routes to ‘tap in, tap out’ style fares.
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