Freeze or reduce Govia Thameslink Railway fares in 2017

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Govia have provided increasingly bad service to their customers, cancelling large numbers of trains, reducing lengths of trains, recently implementing an interim timetable slashing ~350 trains a day, forcing customers to stand for whole journeys, rerouting services to avoid paying compensation

see http://www.networkrail.co.uk/about/performance/ for official performance statistics (average public performance measurement reduced from 86.3% in 2015, to 66.8% in 2016), whilst still increasing fares

UK fares are considered to be the worst in Europe, on a value for money ratio. UK fares have rocketed by a reported ~25% in the last 5 years: see http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-versus-europe-commuting-rail-ticket-prices-strikes-2015-8

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The Government can't require one company to freeze or reduce fares in the way you describe, but it could take other measures. For example, you might like to sign this petition which calls on the Government to make Southern Rail (a Govia franchise) pay compensation to delayed passengers:

Make Southern Rail give automatic refunds to all customers affected by delays.

Timeline

9 Jul 2016	Petition opened for signatures
21 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Jul 2016

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