David Leeder, former executive director of National Express Group and a main board director of FirstGroup, looks at the prospect of Brexit leading to a repatriation of transport policy to elected assemblies in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.
“The rail industry needs to prepare a clear, well-reasoned programme of regulatory changes that would improve economic efficiency and which can command support from a broad range of stakeholders, including staff, passengers and local authorities,” he writes.
He adds: “We must now plan for a period if legislative and market turbulence,” concluding: “Eurostar’s Brussels route will suffer, but democracy will benefit.”
- We've read it in: Passenger Transport, July 8 2016, Issue 138, p28
