Telegrammed by an 'anonymous' reader
"Railway Eye's man at 222 Marylebone Road makes the schoolboy error of many commentators.
"It is not pro free-market (see previous post) to think that unsustainable, flawed private-sector businesses should be given free government money to stay in existence - quite the opposite.
"The point about capitalism is that companies - whether Metronet or Railtrack - should be allowed to fail when they make mistakes.
"They should then be replaced with other companies.
"They should preferably be private-sector ones, but the world's a messy place and sometimes strange hybrids such as Network Rail are the only answer.
"It's certainly hard to argue they've done a worse job than Railtrack, isn't it?"
This is splendid. Railway Eye is now being 'sockpuppeted' - just like a real blog!
Grimsby and Back
3 years ago
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