THE recent chaos on the railways is still not being taken seriously by the Government.
This is the view of Warrington North MP after receiving answers to her parliamentary questions which she believes were “totally inadequate.”
The MP asked how many people in Warrington North were likely to receive compensation as a result of the delays to Northern Rail services and what estimate has been made, by government, of the effect on the North West’s economy of the disruption.
She said: “The government are really not taking these problems seriously. The minister’s reply to my questions was totally inadequate. He could not give me an assessment of the number of people who will qualify for compensation and admitted that no estimate of the effect of the disruption to the North West economy had been made.
“ The Secretary of State for Transport keeps claiming that the chaos caused by Northern Rail is not his responsibility. You have to ask what exactly he is there for if it is not to intervene when serious problems like this occur.
“ People’s everyday lives have been, and continue to be, severely affected and the government response is simply not good enough. “
MP Helen Jones
Rail chaos not being taken seriously, says MP
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Could not agree more. The train service between Birchwood and Liverpool was reasonable until the recent change in timetables and loss of the transpennine service. There is now one direct train per hour. You cannot even rely on that to be on time or even to turn up reliably. With the closing of Lime Street I have virtually given up using the train and my season ticket has been an expensive waste of time during the latter part of May and June. We need investment in rail across the North, but not in the form of HS2.