So says transport secretary Philip Hammond. And he has to be right.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14904610
I pay £8 a day for a 20 mins each way trip = about £1,500 a year if I did it every day.
Edinburgh - Glasgow is about £22 peak (peak being before 9.30 and between about 4 and 6.30 so you can't work normal hours and avoid that).
£150 Birmingham to London peak, Edinburgh - London £221
All these are standard class. Bonkers. And I bet Hammond gets pillored for speaking the truth. Trains are too expensive.
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