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im sceptical at Cardtronic's spin, and wonder what commission they pay. the LINK payment reduction is from 25p to 20p, phased in 1p a year. so the question is how the £2 fee is justified at all regardless of where the ATM are situated or commissions.

i recall reading the Link network has restructure their fees, reducing the standard amount banks pay the machine operator for normal ones and boosting the payments for remote ones (i think?). quite how 5p difference justifies going from free to £2 is another matter. i'll simply avoid them if...

seems to me the solution is to buy a season ticket yourself around the amount of the vouchers, then next day cancel/refund and have the value put on card

dont think any amount of fierce political pressure can prevent rails buckling, though it is odd that it hasn't happened. different type of heat?

:shrug: we pay for them either way.

i thought they went on strike over a change to job role. i dont think i've been on a train that didnt have an OBS, except once when there was some massive stuff up on the network so the train ran instead of cancelled. dont recall the strike being over future train service changes.

yes: RMT lost, ASLEF won, GTR score draw.

so how was the travel chaos for everyone this morning? bit of a faff to adjust or still waiting to get to work?

if new drivers needed (for new services presumably) this is the first time its been mentioned. and prehaps every household in the region could have been sent a timetable in the mail, or prehaps we can accept some degree of personal responsibility for being told time table will change and...

what routes have changed? means drivers havent changed the time they turn up to work, shirley? have to chuckle at the campaigner quote "The way customers have been informed just has not been good enough". we've been hearing about it, posters, people at stations for two to three months and...

i suppose the "improvment" measure is based on overall service across the network. i saw there is not 15 trains an hour Brighton to London, something has to make way for those services so east and west coast lose some service. trains i get a all slightly earlier, annoying to adjust to, and...

think my last +15 min delay was back in August. since the changes from guards to OBS service has improved, aside from driver strikes. awaiting winter though, that should balls things up at some point.

I dont think anyone pays attention to the RMT strikes anymore, the last few had no impact. I doubt they would sack anyone for striking as thats unlawful and give the union a legitimate grievance.

we need guards in each carriage to ensure all passengers well being. maybe they could be robots, thats the real future. :fishing::timmy::D

apparently group of MPs met with Whelan and Southern yesturday too, seems all the MPs have been piling in.

its because it wasnt about the dispute. if you read it, it lists out a dozen or so problems, criticises managment structure, notes the union dispute as the main single issue in 2016, then moves on to 150 odd pages of anorak detail on train network issues. the unions dismiss it only because, as...

what is this fixation with getting the "unions together in the same room" about? apart from highlighting that this is some sort of feat, what does it seek to achieve?

so say RMT to save face from their appalling handling of the dispute.

its funny keep parroting this lie, even though the RMT walked out and their members already lost out.

how are they going to get on a train during severe distruption, when half the services arent running and we're playing sardines?