This from a Mr Robert Wright of the Pink'un...
One
doesn't like to blow one's own trumpet (actually, one does, but it's not polite
to say so), but here is a
column from Rail Professional magazine back in March 2011 about franchising
policy.
It suggests the government may have trouble under the new policy
finding people to bid the big premia they want (this was obviously partly
wrong, but the columnist didn't know they would keep approving over-optimistic
bids by just doing the sums wrong).
It concludes that the poorly worked-out
bits of the policy "will also almost certainly produce greater problems than the government anticipates".
It's
a pity really that Rail Professional no longer features some of these astute
columnists. But no doubt they've gone on to better things...
