Sir Roger Gale
Member of Parliament for Herne Bay and Sandwich (including West Thanet)
 

North Thanet’s MP, Roger Gale, has today described as "highway robbery" Southeastern Trains proposed fare increases faced by travellers from Thanet and Herne Bay.

"These are above-inflation costs of a kind that would have made Dick Turpin blush" says Roger Gale. "We are looking at a deteriorating service, dilapidation within our stations, wasted resources, journey times that take longer than the best times achieved in the 1920s and ever-rising prices.

This is precisely the wrong way to entice passengers out of cars and onto public transport and is, quite simply, unacceptable.  It is one of a growing number of concerns that I shall raise with Southeastern trains Charles Horton when I meet with him next week

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