Columnist John Nelson - a founder of Hull Trains - says the time has come to move beyond open access to "create genuine competition on commercial long distance railways.” Nelson says the process of open access has been slow and remains limited - and that rather than increasing competition open access had initially been intended as a way of adding services that would not otherwise exist. Nelson says "there seems little point in privatising the railway only to insist on retaining quasi-state control of the commercial network 20 years on.” - TS
- We've read it in: Passenger Transport, August 28 2015
