Transfer ownership of Southern Rail to Directly Operated Railways

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Southern Rail has run this franchise into the ground through gross incompetence by running deteriorated rolling stock, causing bitterly acrimonious labour relations, cancelling and running late services wantonly and foisting unbelievable excuses on the public such as dishonetly blaming the unions.

Requests to strip the franchise from Southern Rail:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/04/calls-strip-southern-rail-operator-franchise-govia-thameslink

Evidence for public-owned railways:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0155998214000416

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2750031/Public-sector-Directly-Operated-Railways-returns-217m-taxpayer.html

Southern Rail bonuses:
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/southern-rail-bosses-embroiled-in-a-new-bonus-scandal/

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Take the rail franchise away from Southern Rail and give it to the government!

Timeline

5 Jul 2016	Petition opened for signatures
19 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Jul 2016

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