Association of British Commuters
@ABCommuters
Grassroots, voluntary campaign for justice and equality in public transport. Crowdfunded legal actions, investigations and advocacy.
Open Access Crisis: Great British Railways and East Coast Main Line under threat. Network Rail warns of December timetable crisis, with billions of taxpayers' money under threat. But @railandroad is betraying the public and backing the private companies. abcommuters.com/2025/06/08/ope…
Actually, the privatised SWR was the worst offender for skip-stopping from 2021 and has been getting worse each year. We have all the stats on this in an FOI request from @networkrail this April. Journalists welcome to email if they are covering the topic.
This is skip-stopping. It’s a difficult decision between users of the line seeing late trains and users of Crewkerne station who must now use buses. First sign of a shift to a production-led nationalised railway? Would a private SWR have agreed this?
Brilliant to see @c2c_Rail now back in public ownership!👏 But just how long will we be waiting until #GreatBritishRailways is established?🚉🤔 Watch 14-year-old film maker Riku Fryderyk try to make sense of it in this new documentary 👇 @We_OwnIt youtube.com/watch?v=c_6UWj…
They need to take the cleaners in house too. “Biggest wave of insourcing”they said. Harsh reality is that the lowest paid and most vulnerable workers get kept on outsourced contracts and treated appallingly. Heroes in Covid - forgotten about now. Disgraceful. @RMTunion
Public Railway, Private Filth: Bidvest Noonan’s Dirty Business on c2c #RenationaliseRailNow @bringbackBR @ABCommuters open.substack.com/pub/rmtunion/p…
🚨| NEW: Train services from London and Essex will be publicly-owned starting this Sunday, 20th July. Rail operator c2c’s move into public ownership now means around 4 in 10 passenger journeys will be run under public ownership.
The railway not only denies the right to Turn Up And Go, it even obscures the data about it. The causes are obvious: 1) @RailDeliveryGrp total control of Passenger Assist data; 2) discriminatory @railandroad regulations requiring two-hour pre-booking. disabilitynewsservice.com/regulators-rep…
Regulator’s report on rail assistance ‘shows it is still failing to acknowledge right to turn up and go’ @Doug_Paulley @LordOrk @flowergirl_lon @TransportForAll @ABCommuters disabilitynewsservice.com/regulators-rep…
Hundreds of members of the public have added comments to the @We_OwnIt letter, supporting the demand to urgently end 'open access' rail services. To add your comment scroll to the bottom of the page - all msgs will be brought to @Heidi_Labour's attention: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
🚨8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. And the government is working on delivering it. But @railandroad is still letting private firms in - disrespecting democracy😡 @Heidi_Labour, impose a moratorium on new 'open-access'. Our letter👉 vist.ly/3xwvp
8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. But if @Heidi_Labour doesn't impose a moratorium on @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they can lock in privatisation for decades. Please step in URGENTLY. @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
We must not risk back-tracking on a big win for the public and for common sense. If @Heidi_Labour doesn't stop @RailandRoad approving more open access applications, they will lock in privatisation for decades. URGENT @we_ownit open letter: weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
After @Heidi_Labour intervenes in open access we need to see complete reform of the @railandroad It must become a 'public interest regulator', making all its decisions in the socioeconomic interest - and never that of private companies. weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
Open access will dilute the effectiveness of a nationalisation programme and force a public operator to behave like a private company which is exactly what we don't want! The evidence is clear that competition for public services is wasteful and results in profit leakage.
Great British Railways is being put at risk by predatory private train operators. They want to rob it of revenue, overcrowd our railways, & pose a threat to timetables, to the economy, & to railway reform. Our message to @Heidi_Labour: don't let them. vist.ly/3xxy5
🚨 We demand an urgent moratorium on 'open access' contracts, which waste hundreds of millions per year of public money. @railandroad is ignoring the economic threats and this is @Heidi_Labour's last chance to protect the future of Great British Railways weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
🚨8 in 10 of us back full public ownership of rail. And the government is working on delivering it. But @railandroad is still letting private firms in - disrespecting democracy😡 @Heidi_Labour, impose a moratorium on new 'open-access'. Our letter👉 vist.ly/3xwvp
📢 Read our letter to @Heidi_Labour demanding urgent action to stop @RailandRoad awarding new contracts to private companies 🚆💸 Allowing 'open access' operators to continue will completely undermine our new publicly-owned #GreatBritishRailways 📩 weownit.org.uk/news/stop-priv…
NYC’s fare-free bus pilot showed 12% faster trip times due to quicker boarding and reduced dwell time. The largest increase in new riders came from people earning under $28,000/yr. Tellingly, existing riders reported using savings from bus fares to pay for bills and groceries.