Fare Fail: Send your message today?!

This blog is supporting the FareFail campaign against the Conservative-led government which has let down the commuter and rail user.

Despite all the hot air prior to May 2010 we have seen eye-watering increases in fares on both Medway trains and buses. The Tories have simply let the commuter down because they have cut the direct transport grants; they are therefore not only charging the fare user more, but commuters get less investment. It is unfair.

Medway Labour has been consistently leading on opposing fare increases with a campaign event only in mid-December at Chatham bus and train stations. Labour have been speaking with residents who are sick and tired of the lame excuses on transport; sick of botched £10m Tory bus station and the eye-watering bus fares, sick of the train fares swindle which they were promised would not happen by Tory Councillors and PPCs prior to May 2010.

Medway Labour have also been working closely with Maria Eagle MP and the Labour transport team on developing new policies for train users so that we can once again champion the cause of commuters. The party that stood up against the reckless privatisation in the 1990s which destroyed the railways and left a fragmented and dangerous legacy - You can never trust the Tories on rail.

This blog has also exposed the utter hypocrisy of Conservative MPs who are happy to spend taxpayers money subsidising their own rail and car travel at your expense. These same Tory MPs are now trying to change the IPSA rules so that you cant hold them to account on transport

You can send a message to the multi-millionaire and out-of-touch cabinet of Conservatives who may indeed have chaffeur driven and subsidised cars in government, but can not and should not ignore the rest of the public who are expected to get to out and work.

In 2012 our overpriced rail fares have been hiked again.

Our trains are already the most expensive in Europe.In three years time ticket prices will be 24% more expensive than now, yet passengers continue to be stuck with overcrowded, unreliable trains, with less staff on trains and less staff at stations.This Tory-led Government is taking us further and further away from the value for money train service we all need.

Are you sick of paying hundreds of pounds extra each year to get to work?

If so back the FareFail campaign and send a message to the out-of-touch Tory elite in government.