This time last week, I was sunning it up in Florida spending my birthday with Mickey Mouse. Now I'm writing this from my Trafford flat while I look out to the balcony being splatted with hail stones. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
06.03.2023 - 16:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A train operator will cancel more than 23,000 services this year if reliability continues at its current levels, new analysis reveals as the mayor of Greater Manchester called for urgent 'change' and rail fares rise.
The figure for under-fire TransPennine Express (TPE) was released by West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin, who urged the Government to 'get a grip' as the annual conference of Transport for the North (TfN) started in Newcastle today, Monday. The Manchester Evening News revealed TPE cancelled almost a quarter of all its trains in a month, including more than 1,000 the night before they were due to run.
The operator, which has now revealed a 'recovery plan' has been submitted to the Government, ranked the highest of all train operating companies in terms of cancellations by some distance in the figures published by rail regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). The data showed TPE cancelled 1,781 services during the most recent four-week reporting period to February 4.
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Fares in England and Wales jumped by up to 5.9 per cent on average from Sunday, adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of many annual season tickets.
As union strikes and unreliable services continue to affect customers, while energy and food bills increase, campaign group Railfuture said it was 'really harsh on the poor rail traveller' and a 'bitter pill to swallow'. Analysis of ORR data found the annual fares rise was the largest since a 6.1 per cent hike across Britain in 2012.
A study by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority found a total of 23,153 services would be cancelled by FirstGroup-owned TPE this year if the rate
This time last week, I was sunning it up in Florida spending my birthday with Mickey Mouse. Now I'm writing this from my Trafford flat while I look out to the balcony being splatted with hail stones. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Elon Musk will be the center of a new documentary from the unflinching Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” Already months into production, Gibney announced the project on Monday saying he was “hugely excited” about tackling Musk on film. It is described as a “definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.” Tech mogul Musk reached peak saturation in late 2022 when he completed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, promising to upend the platform’s user experience as well as restore “balance” to its user body (including the elimination of bot accounts, which Musk has previously said ran rampant on the site).
The gap between Liverpool and Manchester United last season could not have been any bigger.
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