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Are you surprised when labour field the two Eds ? One of them lost his own constituency he was so unelectable. This government and buffoons like Grayling are complacent because there is no electable opposition! You can hold voters to account, myself I blame Labour for not giving them a proper...

I wonder what Labour think of this situation. Do we even have an opposition government? I voted conservative and am beginning to WISH we had some form of competent opposition.

The way grayling picked up the baton without skipping a beat makes me wonder who's really behind it. Someone at the DfT? How can we have a total overhaul of government and still nothing change?

And maybe as a bonus your career will not be systematically made obsolete by people who won't accept being held to ransom by a bunch of thugs.

They have always been targeting commuters, they're fully aware that strikes don't hurt southern financially.

I've said multiple times on this thread, there's no fundamental reason a train can operate without a guard or a driver, and the responses I get are just so closed minded and backward looking. We've got driverless cars being road tested, the tech in that is much more complex than a train. Yet...

Another tory voter (last time at least) looking for someone new. Shame the local majority is about 35% of the total vote. argh

No unions i guess? And I wonder who controls the franchise

Views on grayling's newest initiative? I'm beginning to think he is useless. Just realised he was behind the cuts to prisons that has created this latest crisis...

I've got no choice tomorrow but WFH Wed/Thurs. I imagine it'll be busier than usual, with people realising they have no choice but to WFH during the driver strikes next week (so making more effort to come in this week).

At least they've finally got their air con fixed. It must be 5 degrees In this carriage.

What an annoying reply

And how many times has a train been cancelled due to unavailable obs/guard? The answer has to be a balance, not just one-sided anecdotal evidence.

Yes, in order to prevent a service from being cancelled. This is quite a useful way to help commuters, you know, get home to see their families before children go to bed etc. So Ernest's argument above about DOO not helping delays doesn't add up. DOO in some circumstances may lead to a delay...

Unfortunately I'm getting quite a lot less as not traveling from Brighton at the moment. But my word is that single price expensive!!

Such a joke. 25% of a single is about £2. What a bloody waste of time, it's such a hassle to fill out those online forms. Type in departure and arrival station, times, bank details, ticket info plus photograph. For £2. Fantastic, even more time wasted.

I didn't realise there are platform staff on these routes, eg Preston park has no such staff. If the cameras don't work then fix them, that's obvious. The whole argument here feels like heel dragging, "it can't be done right now for entirely fixable reasons, so let's never do it." As far as I'm...

I think people are also cottoning on to the inconsistencies in the safety argument. The fact that doo is working fine on other lines and indeed driverless trains are working on dlr raises some serious doubts in their motives. Of course you'll always get the pro union core support but they just...

Anyone heard of what's happened with grayling's £20m and his problem solving team?

Imagine the luxury of being able to go to a station to join the strikers at the picket line. In beginning to understand your lack of sympathy for the working commuter.